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 OliviaB rated 3 months ago - first image by hanno with thanx.
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"The Dark Side", by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer,
is probably the most important book of the year.
This review by the Washington Post summarizes
some of the book, and assesses its claims. Below
is a small excerpt...
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- OliviaB rated 3 months ago
- first image by hanno with thanx.
second image from here with thanks.
"The Dark Side", by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer,
is probably the most important book of the year.
This review by the Washington Post summarizes
some of the book, and assesses its claims. Below
is a small excerpt. The entire review is worth reading.
There's also a slideshow of the perps at the link.
And here is the transcript of a q & a
between the author and some Washington Post readers.
the dark side
"Recast as a series of indictments, the story Mayer tells goes like this: Since embarking upon its global war on terror, the United States has blatantly disregarded the Geneva Conventions. It has imprisoned suspects, including U.S. citizens, without charge, holding them indefinitely and denying them due process. It has created an American gulag in which thousands of detainees, including many innocent of any wrongdoing, have been subjected to ritual abuse and humiliation. It has delivered suspected terrorists into the hands of foreign torturers.
Under the guise of "enhanced interrogation techniques," it has succeeded, in Mayer's words, in "making torture the official law of the land in all but name." Further, it has done all these things as a direct result of policy decisions made at the highest levels of government.
To dismiss these as wild, anti-American ravings will not do. They are facts, which Mayer substantiates in persuasive detail, citing the testimony not of noted liberals like Noam Chomsky or Keith Olbermann but of military officers, intelligence professionals, "hard-line law-and-order stalwarts in the criminal justice system" and impeccably conservative Bush appointees who resisted the conspiracy from within the administration.
Above all, the story Mayer tells is one of fear and its exploitation.
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