In an interview with award-winning author Pamela Hamilton, CERL Advisory Council member Mark Fallon discusses his three-decade career in government, including his undercover assignments as an NCIS Special Agent, science-backed strategies for eliciting accurate and reliable information during interrogations, and the challenges he confronted as Deputy Commander of the Criminal Investigation Task Force charged with bringing suspected 9/11 terrorists to trial.  

Mark Fallon is the co-founder of Project Aletheia at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, director of ClubFed, LLC, and a member of the CERL Advisory Council. He is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture. Read his bio here.

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