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Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.
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Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976 and served with the Agency for thirty-one years. At the time of his retirement he was the Director of the National Clandestine Service for the CIA, responsible for the coordination of clandestine human operations for the intelligence community. As a former Director of the Counterterrorism Center, he led the worldwide intelligence collection programs and covert action operations against international terrorist organizations following the ouster of terrorists from Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.

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Chapter 1 from Hard Measures
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Washington Post, January 11, 2013
...is always prejudice against another. Personal Post More from Outlook Michael Leahy What the Golden Dome means today. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. What the film gets wrong and right. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein Was it the worst ever?...
New York Times, January 8, 2013
...Dark Thirty, published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., defended the use of waterboarding and said that operatives used small plastic bottles, not buckets as depicted in the film, to...
New York Times, January 8, 2013
...Dark Thirty, published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., defended the use of waterboarding and said that operatives used small plastic bottles, not buckets as depicted in the film, to...
Fargo Forum, August 30, 2012
...it's a Navy SEAL or the CIA, and revealing their names to the public," he said. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., former director of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA, said it shouldn't be a surprise that the ex-SEAL's real name came out. "It's...
NWI Times, August 14, 2012
...L. Bergen   E-BOOK NONFICTION 1. "The Passage of Power" by Robert A. Caro 2. "Hard Measures" by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. and Bill Harlow 3. "Manhunt" by Peter L. Bergen 4. "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg 5. "___ My Dad Says" by Justin...
Pop Matters, August 7, 2012
...makes for a more compelling read. In Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions after 9/11 Saved American Lives, Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. presents a full-throated defense of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” offering new if self-serving...
Gulf News, June 21, 2012
...Covert operatives Jose A. Rodriguez Jr and Henry A. ‘Hank’ Crumpton offer inside looks at the war on terror and its much-debated interrogation techniques Reviewed by Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times When the...
CNN, May 8, 2013
...How to Stop Terror’ – a GPS special premieres May 10 at 11:00 p.m. ET By Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. , Special to CNN Editor’s note: Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. is the former chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and head of the National...
New York Times, May 8, 2013
...videotapes documenting the interrogation of the Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the Thailand facility. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the agencys clandestine service, ordered the destruction. The female officer was...
New York Times, May 7, 2013
...videotapes documenting the interrogation of the Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the Thailand facility. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the agencys clandestine service, ordered the destruction. The female officer was...
New York Times, May 7, 2013
...videotapes documenting the interrogation of the Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the Thailand facility. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the agencys clandestine service, ordered the destruction. The female officer was...
New York Times, May 7, 2013
...videotapes documenting the interrogation of the Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the Thailand facility. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the agencys clandestine service, ordered the destruction. The female officer at...
Foreign Policy Magazine, January 30, 2013
...of the trove of information derived from CIA detainees, including those on whom enhanced techniques had been used." Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. who oversaw the CIA's counterterrorism operations and later led its clandestine service, wrote in the Washington...
Foreign Policy Magazine, January 30, 2013
...of the trove of information derived from CIA detainees, including those on whom enhanced techniques had been used." Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. who oversaw the CIA's counterterrorism operations and later led its clandestine service, wrote in the Washington...