The Report

How long you been working on this project, Dan?

Five years.

Five, wow.

Every day? Nights, weekends?

It's been very consuming.

Do you have a relationship, Dan? Family?

Just trying to get a better sense of who you are.

When it started, I was seeing someone, but, you know,

with the nature of the work and the hours...

I wasn't a very good partner.

Five years, and it could all go away.

Just vanish in the face of these allegations.

I can certainly imagine

an ambitious young man like yourself

spends years with his head buried

in some terrible spectacle,

gets frustrated with the process,

sees an opportunity to get the truth out faster,

maybe crosses a line.

I'm assuming this is the most important thing

- you've ever been a part of. - I didn't do it.

Or I can see an equally ambitious senator

encouraging you to do something.

Now would be a good time to tell me.

That did not happen. What I did, I did on my own.

I acted alone.

You ever sleep, bro?

I used to. Got in the way of work.

Anything in that bag contain the real names

of CIA officers, assets or partners,

or any information that would be in violation

of the agreement between the Central Intelligence Agency

and the United States Senate?

- Have a good night, Jay. - You, too, Dan.

So, you did steal the document?

I did not steal it. I relocated it.

Everyone has their own words.

The language is built to choose sides.

Now, why did you relocate it?

They could send you to jail, Dan.

I think I should start at the beginning.

- You Dan Jones? - Yeah.

- Denis McDonough. - Hi.

Thank you so much for meeting me.

Come on in, yeah. Absolutely.

So, thanks for coming in.

Uh, tell me your story.

My second day of grad school was September 11th.

I was headed to a lecture, and everything just... stopped.

The next day, I changed all my classes to national security.

Good man.

So, what's the long-term plan?

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

Are you running for office?

Oh, uh, no. No politics for me.

I think I'd be more effective behind the scenes,

somewhere I can really make a difference.

So, what about before Harvard?

Uh, what'd you fill up your days with then?

Teach For America for three years in Baltimore.

Seventh-graders.

I read that you taught high school Spanish

in Saint Paul, Minnesota, after college?

And LBJ's first job was teaching

at the Mexican school in South Texas.

Knowing how to deal with children

is a highly useful skill when working on the Hill.

But from my perspective as Senate staff,

I would wait until things turn around up here.

I think Senator Daschle would say the same thing.

Go get some real-world experience in counterterrorism,

in... foreign policy.

Try the CIA. Try FBI.

Have them teach you what they don't teach you in a classroom.

Then you can come back here, and...

help us fix all the things that Bush and Cheney are breaking.

McDonough.

Yes, Senator, uh, one second.

The boss. Here.

Keep in touch, huh?

- Thank you very much for your time. - Absolutely.

I do not have that information right now,

but I can certainly get that for you in the next 15.

Yeah.

In regards to the bomb plots in Germany,

three men were arrested in Medebach

with 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide

and 26 military-grade detonators.

The CIA suspects the Islamic Jihad Union...

Excuse me.

Uh, can I borrow you for a minute, Dan?

Uh, Senator would like to see you.

Yeah, of course.

- Morning, Dan. - Morning, Senator.

Have you seen the story today in The New York Times?

- No, Senator, I have not. - Evidently, the CIA destroyed

tapes of interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees.

Did the Intel Committee know there were tapes?

No. This is the first I've heard of it.

So, I want to find out what was on the tapes

and why they were destroyed.

We want you to lead the investigation, Dan.

But if the tapes were destroyed, how do we...

They're saying they have written records.

Thousands of pages. Let's see about that.

I want you to find out exactly what they have

and read every word of it.

This report on the destruction of tapes by the CIA

- has been two years in the making. - Thank you.

The findings are very troubling,

but it will remain classified.

Based on these revelations, a larger study into

the entire CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

is clearly in order.

All in favor, say "yay."

- Mr. Whitehouse? - Yay.

- Mr. Burr? - Yay.

- Mr. Rockefeller? - Yay.

Mr. Chambliss?

- Nay. - Mr. Risch?

I think this is a waste of time.

Now, I know you voted against this, Saxby...

But you already had your tapes investigation.

Yes, but the rest of us voted to go further, 14 to one.

It's our job to provide oversight.

All during the campaign, you got candidate Obama saying

how he wanted to be the first post-partisan president.

Saxby, you know me.

It's my intention that this report be seen

as coming from the entire Intelligence Committee,

not just the Democrats.

So, who takes the lead?

Well, I was thinking Dan Jones.

He spent four years doing counterterrorism at the FBI.

He's already got the security clearances.

The rules are the same as the tapes investigation.

No politics, no bias,

and the senator isn't interested

in opinions or theories, just facts.

Based on what you found out already,

this could go to a pretty dark place.

You need to keep your personal feelings out of it.

That's the first thing Republicans are gonna look for.

No talking to the press or your girlfriend

or any family members.

Nobody outside of the committee.

You're gonna get a team of six...

Three Republicans, three Democrats...

But there can't be any Republican sentences

or Democratic paragraphs.

And how long do we have?

We're hoping you can wrap it up in a year or so.

You're gonna have to keep the senators updated on your work.

Nobody wants any surprises.

There's a covert CIA off-site in Virginia.

You start tomorrow.

- Jones, right? - Sean.

- Hi. Dan. - Sean Murphy from the Agency.

- Let's go inside. - Okay.

Identification, gentlemen.

The room we've designated is a SCIF.

No phone reception, no photos... You know the drill...

Lead walls.

And, per the agreement,

the room is off-limits to everyone

- except committee personnel. - Absolutely.

No one inside without your permission.

- And the computers? - Right here.

Your own dedicated server, air-gapped workstations.

We'll be updating the database as we go.

The files will be loaded on here as we collect them

- from across the Agency. - Great.

We'll want all relevant documents as soon as possible.

- Well, we got to vet it first. - Vet?

There's a lot to...

Director Panetta agreed to give us

everything pertaining to the program.

Wh-Who would be, who would be vetting it?

It's a big agency.

We got to make sure you don't get anything

you're not supposed to.

Make yourself at home.

There's... no printer?

No paper.

No documents are allowed to leave the room

without CIA approval.

Paper has a way of getting people in trouble at our place.

I think at some point we're gonna need a printer.

And paper.

At our place...

paper's how we keep track of laws.

Okay.

Calling this an obvious terrorist attack

based on very preliminary information,

the information that

intelligence officials are getting...

You're not gonna like this.

A possible hijacked plane, and of course

the-the very horrifying video of the plane...

We confirmed some of the names.