Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. (born October 21, 1948) is an American former intelligence officer who served as director of the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Apr 25, 2012 · On Monday, the latest installment in the defense of torture — Hard Measures, by Jose Rodriguez — will hit bookshelves. Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and its former Deputy Director of Operations, …

Apr 30, 2013 · Former Chief of the CIA’s Center for Counterterrorism, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., reveals how, in the wake of 9/11, government-approved hard measures used on captured high-level al-Qa’ida operatives derailed terrorist threats to the US, contributed to the capture of Osama bin Laden, and saved countless American lives.

Dec 10, 2007 · The then-head of the clandestine service, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the tapes destroyed shortly after a Washington Post expose focused attention on the CIA's secret prisons, CBS News national...

Apr 29, 2012 · Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, defends the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on high-level al Qaeda detainees and says he has no regrets

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is a thirty-one-year veteran of the CIA. He served as Chief of CIA's Counterterrorism Center and Director of the National Clandestine Service. His book Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions after 9/11 Saved American Lives was published in 2012.

Feb 20, 2008 · But Jose Rodriguez Jr., now the central figure in a controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation tapes, fought back. A blunt-spoken Puerto Rico native and former head of the agency's Latin...

Dec 10, 2014 · In light of the controversial Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques, former CIA Clandestine Service chief Jose Rodriguez defended the methods,...

May 4, 2011 · Jose Rodriguez ran the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center from 2002 to 2005, the period when top al-Qaeda leaders Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and Abu Faraj al-Libbi were taken into custody and...

Nov 23, 2023 · Jose Rodriguez and the CIA Interrogation Tapes. Six days after 9/11, George W. Bush signed a presidential directive that authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill, capture, and detain suspected Al Qaeda members anywhere in the world. [1] .