http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/31/detention/
index.html
Waterboarding someone 183 times in a month.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/18/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-was-waterboarded-183-times-in-one-month/
JSOC run from the Office of the Vice President.
http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/04/01/7800/seymour_
hersh_cheney_left_allies_behind_in_national_security_posts_and_may_
still_influence_events
CIA inspector general’s report on torture.
http://washingtonindependent.com/56175/the-2004-cia-inspector-generals-report-on-torture
Schlein Vineyard wines.
http://www.schleinvineyard.com/
We didn’t know who we were imprisoning at Guantánamo.
http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/
Covering up that we didn’t know who we had imprisoned at Guantánamo.
http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/
We knew most Guantánamo prisoners were innocent.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/
some_truths_abo/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/ex-bush-official-Guantanamo-bay-innocent/
U.S. torture-a jihadist recruitment bonanza.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004036
Torture radicalizes prisoners.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/68872.html
Senator Durbin: Congress is corporate-owned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html
Health care reform creates new customers for the insurance companies and big pharma.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-healthcare-insurers24-2009aug24,0,4551786.story
The AIG bailout was a way of funneling money to Goldman Sachs.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_
takeover/print
Halliburton profits from Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Marshall Plan as corporate welfare.
Thomas J. McCormick. “Drift or Mastery? A Corporatist Synthesis for American Diplomatic History.” Reviews in American History 10, no. 4 (December 1982).
Congress’s turnover lower than North Korean Politburo’s.
http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av11-9-06.html
The mainstream media as “Church of the Savvy.”
http://uscmediareligion.org/?theScoop &scID=185
Why France lost in Algeria even though torture “worked.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/04/23/torture/
The oligarchy includes journalists.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393/
Arthur Andersen was examining Enron.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrence-mcnally/qa-with-michael-lewis-par_b_248357.html
The credit agencies were examining the subprimes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402902_pf.html
Above a certain pay grade, a politician can never be prosecuted or imprisoned.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes
Bipartisanship isn’t all you might hope.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes
The leviathan only grows.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/07/02/
savage/index1.html
Bibliography
In addition to the sources listed in the preceding section, this story draws on a number of excellent books, all of which I would recommend to anyone interested in exploring the political reality behind my fiction.
THE U.S. TORTURE PROGRAM
Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh.
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh.
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer.
Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law by Christopher H. Pyle.
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program by Stephen Grey.
How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo.
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W. McCoy.
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali.
The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable by David Cole.
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen J. Greenberg.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture by Jennifer K. Harbury.
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters by Richard A. Clarke.
GUANTÁNAMO
Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies.
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison by Andy Worthington.
The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz.
Guantánamo: What the World Should Know by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman.
Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice by Eric Lichtblau.
Justice at War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America’s War on Terror by David Cole.
Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life by Ted Gup.
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping of America by James Bramford.
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times by Amy Goodman and David Goodman.
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency by Charlie Savage.
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer.
GOVERNMENT/MEDIA COMPLICITY
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics by Glenn Greenwald.
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion by Matt Taibbi.
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government-And How We Take It Back by David Sirota.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald.
FILMS ON RELATED SUBJECTS
No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson. http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/
Secrecy by Peter Galison and Robb Moss. http://www.secrecyfilm.com
Standard Operating Procedure by Errol Morris. http://www.sonyclassics.com/standardoperatingprocedure/
Taxi to the Dark Side by Alex Gibney. http://www.taxitothedarkside.com/taxi/
Torturing Democracy. http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BARRY EISLER spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and start-up executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
