In an article detailing key reading material for season 4 of their “Serial” podcast, show creators named CERL Advisory Council member Mark Fallon’s 2017 book “Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture” as a critical source about the September 11 investigation, interrogation and the C.I.A. “Serial” — a New York Times narrative podcast — focused on a history of Guantánamo for its fourth season.

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. Fallon has been in the national security field for over three decades, principally as a special agent with NCIS, and 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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