Inside Out

Most of all, my wife Laura, for never being too busy to help me figure out a story point or to indulge my political rants. Thanks, babe, for everything.

Sources

When this book was in manuscript form, it contained over eighty footnotes. I was tempted to keep them in the text, but in the end I judged them too distracting from the story. As a compromise, I moved the references here. You can also find them on my website.

First New York Times report of torture tapes destruction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/washington/06cnd-intel.html?bl &ex=1197090000 &en=3a8e1ed53c7d157e &ei=5087%0A

Second New York Times report-not two tapes, but ninety-two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/washington/03web-intel.html

Torture tape time line.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004872.php

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004887.php

http://www.slate.com/id/2179607/sidebar/2179658/

CIA urges suppression of documents related to the torture tapes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060804117.html?hpid=topnews

Mainstream media’s euphemistic contortions regarding U.S. torture.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/08/torture/

Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.

“The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of ‘a few bad apples’ acting on their own. The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority.”

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/

supporting/2008/Detainees.121108.pdf

What the Gang of Eight knew about the torture program.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/09/democrats/

ACLU Freedom of Information Act requests for information on treatment of terrorist suspects.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2007/1212-04.htm

How the CIA dodged court orders covering terror prisoners.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1200594608313

The CIA destroyed records documenting torture.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/case-missing-torture-documents

Dick Cheney admits to waterboarding.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/jonathan_landay/story/14893.html

Records of what was on the interrogation videos.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39094prs20090320.html

Information laundering-how the government uses the media to turn talking points into news stories.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/11/

petraeus_interview/

And another example of how the government and mainstream media cooperatively propagandize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?_r=3 &pagewanted=1 &hp

Manila city jail.

http://www.hurights.or.jp/asia-pacific/039/05.htm

http://kuwentos.wordpress.com/2004/10/06/manila-city-jail/

Pinwale, the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html

Why bounty hunting isn’t a great way to catch terrorists.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090029

The CIA’s terrorist interrogation “mosaic.”

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/

some_truths_abo/

CIA use of Boeing for rendition flights to black sites.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030

ta_talk_mayer

Secretary of State Rice’s version of “If the president does it, it means it’s not illegal.”

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/30/condi_rice_defends_

torture_as_legal_and_right

The torture memos.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2009/04/the-torture-memos.html

The CIA as fall guy for Iraq.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames/120112

Force drift.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/27/060227fa_fact?currentPage=all

How to turn permission to torture into a limitation on torture (and blame field personnel for exceeding it).

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/22/colbert/

index.html

http://www.nytimes/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html?pagewanted=1

U.S. policy on sleep deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, beatings.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614

The U.S. torture program led to no useful intelligence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html

How the Bush administration used torture to try to establish a Saddam Hussein/al Qaeda link.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html

Scapegoating of enlisted personnel for torture at Abu Ghraib.

http://www.law.whittier.edu/pdfs/cstudents/wlr-v27n3-smith-abstract.pdf

Jonathan Turley’s article on Abu Ghraib scapegoating and the abdication of command responsibility.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-06-06-turley-edit_x.htm

Dan Choi, Arab linguist, driven from the military for being gay.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-belkin/obama-to-fire-his-first-g_b_199070.html

We can make a terrorist talk, but we can’t get him to talk in English.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/dan-choi-daily-show_n_203830.html

Assassination ring operating out of the Office of the Vice President.

http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/

investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_

executive_assassination_ring

The vice president’s plan to override the Fourth Amendment and use active-duty military to arrest U.S. citizens on American soil.

http://www.secgov.info/2009/07/classification-and-constitution.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html

CIA briefs Congress on a CIA assassination program.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/panetta-acknowledged-cia_n_228321.html

CIA lies to Congress.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/07/lying-congress

Doctors assist in torture.

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004704

Outsourcing assassination to Blackwater.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?_r=1 &hp

Contractors rape with impunity.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9342

How to destroy a citizen through trial by media.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/04/anthrax/

Over half of America supports torture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/poll-slight-majority-of-a_n_210700.html

Over sixty percent of Evangelicals support torture.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/

CIA black sites.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_

mayer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702214.html

CIA secret prison system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html?_r=2 &hp= &pagewanted=all

CIA shuttled ghost detainees through Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantánamo, and other prisons so the Red Cross couldn’t verify their existence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html

Ghost detainees at black sites.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10819080

How the CIA built the black site prisons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html

The Supreme Court rules terror suspects have the right to petition for habeas corpus.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/12/boumediene/

Government releases terror suspects it can’t charge.