Mayer,J. The Dark Side. 2008
Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned
into a War on American Ideals. New York: Doubleday, 2008. 392 pages.
As this is being written, in September 2009, it is much too early to
know how this story will evolve. Attorney General Eric Holder announced
last month that the issue of torture would be pursued by a special counsel,
John Durham. But President Obama doesn't like the idea, and CIA director
Leon Panetta is circling the wagons against an investigation, even though
Panetta was anti-torture at the time he was appointed. Needless to say,
every Iraq hawk on the op-ed pages loves the idea of torturing prisoners,
or at least prefers no investigation of clear violations of international
law. On the other hand, Obama is not in a position to ask for Holder's
resignation over this issue without losing a huge amount of credibility.
And it will look bad if Durham goes after only a few low-level cowboys,
because they can easily claim that they were "just following orders."
Whatever happens, this book is the one to read for background on this
issue, even though more documents have come out since it was published.
Dick Cheney is fingered as the key player in promoting torture; he managed
to intimidate anyone who opposed his methods in the war against terrorism.
A handful of too-clever administration lawyers did his bidding by coming up
with phrases that showed why international law was irrelevant in the current
context of terrorism, and why torture isn't really torture after all.
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