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The Report
Writer-director Scott Z Burns draws on the real-life 2012 Senate Committee report into interrogation techniques used by the CIA to fashion a gripping drama about abuses of power in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Daniel Jones (Adam Driver) works in 2009 Washington DC for Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) and is part of the US Select Committee on Intelligence. When serious questions are raised about the "enhanced interrogation techniques" employed by the CIA to extract information during the war on terror, Jones diligently sifts through millions of documents to discover the chilling truth. Dogged in his pursuit of the facts, Daniel forsakes personal relationships for years to follow a trail of evidentiary breadcrumbs, some of which lead to psychologist Dr Jim Mitchell (Douglas Hodge), who oversaw the brutal treatment of prisoners. As the list of discrepancies grows, Daniel realises the full extent of the CIA's actions and the vast sums that have been wasted torturing detainees, who were never in possession of vital intelligence.
