Daniel J. Jones | |
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| Born | Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Elizabethtown College (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) Harvard Kennedy School (MPP) |
| Occupation(s) | Former FBI and U.S. Senate investigator Research and investigative services |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture |
| Notable work | Senate Report on CIA Torture |
Daniel J. Jones is an American formerUnited States Senate investigator who served as the senior staff lead on theUnited States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation intothe CIA's use of torture in the wake of theSeptember 11 attacks. Jones is the founder and president of Advance Democracy, Inc. (ADI), a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that conducts public interest investigations around the world that promote "accountability, transparency, and good governance", according to its description.[1] Jones is also the founder of The Penn Quarter Group, a research and investigative advisory headquartered in Washington, DC.[2]
Jones previously worked as an investigator for the Senate and theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As a staff member of theU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he led several prominent investigations, including theSenate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture, also known as the Torture Report.[3]
Jones was a fellow at theCarr Center for Human Rights Policy atHarvard Kennedy School from 2017 to 2019.[4]
Jones is originally fromPennsylvania. He earned abachelor of arts degree fromElizabethtown College inElizabethtown, Pennsylvania, amaster of arts in teaching fromJohns Hopkins University inBaltimore, and amaster of public policy fromHarvard Kennedy School atHarvard University.[5]
After college, he worked as a middle school teacher withTeach For America, anAmeriCorps national service program. Jones spent four years with theFederal Bureau of Investigation before joining theUnited States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under the leadership of its then-chairman, SenatorJay Rockefeller. Jones subsequently worked for SenatorDianne Feinstein when she became chair of the same.[6]
In 2000, he was named toPeople Magazine's 100 most eligible bachelors.[7][8]
He is on the board of advocates forHuman Rights First and currently leads his own research and investigative consultancy, the Penn Quarter Group, and a non-profit organization, Advance Democracy, Inc. He was a fellow at theCarr Center for Human Rights Policy from 2017 to 2019.[9][10]
Jones was the lead investigator and author of theSenate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Report of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, the largest investigation in U.S. Senate history. According toThe Washington Post, Jones worked alongside Alissa Starzak, a former CIA lawyer, who then left the committee in 2011, on an initial investigation into theCIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.[11]
Based on more than 6.3 million pages of classified documents, the investigation was described by theLos Angeles Times as the "most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations."[12]
Jones departed the committee shortly after the completion of the report, and SenatorDianne Feinstein praised Jones for his "indefatigable work on the Intelligence Committee staff" upon his departure.[13]
Jones' investigative work on theSenate Intelligence Committee was detailed in a three-part series inThe Guardian in September 2016.[14] In 2019, his work was the subject of a major motion picture,The Report, where he is portrayed byOscar nomineeAdam Driver.[15]
In addition to the film, an audiobook of the executive summary of the Senate's Torture Report, read by the cast of the film, was released in 2019.[16] Also a podcast featuring interviews with key individuals has been published.[17]
In 2017, Jones founded the Democracy Integrity Project as a501(c)(4) advocacy group serving as president and CEO.[18] The Democracy Integrity Project is an advocacy group that purports to investigate interference and disinformation operations in American and international elections by hostile foreign powers.[19]
In 2021,Fox News reported on tax documents that revealed that the organization gave $521,000 toChristopher Steele and $405,000 toFusion GPS, the researchers that created the controversialSteel Dossier in 2020.[20][21]
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