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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals Author: Jane Mayer $10.85 | The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals |
Editorial Review:
National Book Award Finalist
With a New Afterword by the Author
A searing and vitally important chronicle of how the Bush Administration has sacrificed our country's core principles in the name of their war on terror.
Jane Mayer, bestselling author and acclaimed correspondent for The New Yorker, relates in gripping detail the impact of the Bush Administration's disastrous counterterrorism policies. Under their watch, U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, have been subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century. Mayer shows how the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a longheld agenda to enhance presidential powers in an unprecedented manner, obliterating the Constitutional protections that define the American experiment.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Every Citizen Needs to Know: 
This book makes me both very angry and very, very sad. It documents--step by steps--how our leaders managed to arrange and/or allow grossly unconstitutional and dishonorable actions of torture and life-disruption to occur. The tenacity of some for such a long time belies the idea that it all came from 'the great fear of additional terrorists' attacks after 9/11'--the main perpetrators were people who sought major power and had little belief in anything like constitutional democracy. We see first hand their...more info
The Dark Side of "Shock and Awe":
It must be said that, the U.S. for all its many faults, generally throughout its history has had a sixth sense for knowing when it is approaching the "moral brink." And in all but a few instances in its history, has found ways to "pull back" before it plunged over the moral and legal cliffs. In fact, until the present administration, "pulling back" just before the plunge, had become a hallmark of our system of "rule by law." Even in politics, our motto could well be summarized as: Fight hard politically,...more info
Truly Disturbing and Enlightening:
Jane Mayer's book "The Dark Side" took a while for me to finish. After reading a bit, I would get disturbed and really pissed off. To think that my government had descended to the depths that it had, and had done so with absurd legal interpretations behind it, I couldn't help but feel the earth rumble as Jefferson tossed about in his grave. What also disturbed me was the silence among most Americans, most of whom with the shrug of the shoulders somehow think this is "just liberals bashing conservatives" or...more info
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