BBC News referred to mark in this piece about the release of the Senate report on CIA torture.
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2014-12-10
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BBC News
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Category Archives: Interviews/Appearances/Articles
Doctors and Detainees: The Role of Medical Professionals in Counterterrorism Efforts
Mark was interviewed for The Stream on Al Jazeera and discussed the role of medical professionals in torture. Mark said that the CIA outsourced torture to SERE psychologists lacking meaning experience in interrogation or terrorism to create the EIT program. Mark explained SERE, by design, hardens resistance and that Mitchell and Jessen damaged U.S. national security by the shameful practices they implemented.
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2014-12-17
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Al Jazeera
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Did US torture help track down Osama Bin Laden?
Rev. Al Sharpton talked with Mark about the release of the Senate Torture Report executive summary and whether CIA torture worked. Mark told MSNBC there was no basis for the CIA going down the road to torture and the people who created the program were not interrogation professionals and did not rely on subject matter experts in interrogation. Mark explained that personnel within the CIA were disgusted by the EIT program and there is no valid information that torture was necessary or effective.
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2014-12-14
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MSNBC
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Views You Can Use: The CIA Torture Report Goes Public
U.S. News Associate Editor referenced Mark in his piece, saying: ‘Mark Fallon, who worked as an interrogator for more than 30 years, wrote in Politico, “It’s official: torture doesn’t work.” Fallon said he has long held that belief, and politicians like former Vice President Dick Cheney who asserted its efficacy (and continue to staunchly defend the CIA’s interrogation program) are just plain wrong. “Yes, torture makes people talk — but what they say is often untrue,” he wrote. Not only is it ineffective, but also incredibly costly – legally, morally and strategically. “Over the coming days, you’ll be hearing numerous torture defenders claim it kept Americans safe,” he wrote. “Don’t believe them.”’
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2014-12-09
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U.S. News
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The Scientists Trying to End Torture
Motherboard reporter Kaleigh Rogers interviewed Mark for her article in Motherboard about the CIA torture program. Mark told Motherboard he was unable to convince leaders that rapport-building techniques would be more effective. Mark told Motherboard he still wonders what intelligence the CIA might have missed by not using tried-and-true methods and that the new scientific research can now inform interrogation planning.
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2014-12-12
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Motherboard
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The War Hero and the Chicken Hawk
Timothy Egan writes about Mark in his piece in the New York Times Opinion Page. Eagan wrote, “What Fallon concluded is what any fair-minded reader of the Senate report will conclude: that “at no time” did the torture program produce intelligence that averted a terrorist threat. Nor did it lead to Osama bin Laden.”
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2014-12-11
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New York Times
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Senator Angus King on Morning Joe Speaks about Mark Fallon
Human Rights First published a video of Senator Angus King talking about the Senate Torture and referring to Mark. Senator King referred to Mark’s Op-Ed in Politico Magazine as a very powerful piece and quoted Mark as saying torture does not produce good intelligence.
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2014-12-12
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Human Rights First
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Mark Fallon on CNN Newsroom
CNN’s Carol Costello interviews Mark on Dick Cheney’s defense of torture. Mark said the goal of an interrogation is to elicit accurate and reliable information, not enact revenge.
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2014-12-14
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Human Rights First
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Mark Fallon on American Morning on CNN on the Senate Torture Report
CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed Mark on the release of the Senate Torture Report executive summary and how the CIA misled the public over torture.
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2014-12-12
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Human Rights First
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CNNi talks to security consultant Mark Fallon about the CIA torture report
Mark was interviewed by CNN International about the release of the Senate SSCI Torture Report executive summary and responded to comments made by CIA Director John Brennan. Mark emphasized that there has been a lack of accountability and there needs to be an assessment of how much damage has been done by not resorting to tried and true interrogation methods that in the past had effectively elicited reliable intelligence and evidence from terror suspects.
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2014-12-14
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CNN
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