The dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals / Jane Mayer.

By:

Mayer, Jane [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0385526393
9780385526395

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.931 22

LOC classification:

HV6432 .M383 2008

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Contents:

1. Panic -- 2. Blame -- 3. The warning -- 4. Men of zeal -- 5. Detainee 001 -- 6. Outsourcing torture -- 7. Inside the black sites -- 8. The experiment -- 9. The memo -- 10. A deadly interrogation -- 11. Blowback -- 12. Cover-up.

Summary: In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. This is a dramatic account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. Whatever the short-term gains, there were incalculable losses in terms of moral standing, our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself.--From publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	973.931 MAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A379137B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-369) and index.

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. This is a dramatic account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. Whatever the short-term gains, there were incalculable losses in terms of moral standing, our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself.--From publisher description.

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