The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009 M05 8 - 432 páginas The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. With a new afterward.
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Contenido
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The Warning | 28 |
Men of Zeal | 44 |
Detainee 001 | 72 |
Outsourcing Torture | 101 |
Inside the Black Sites | 139 |
The Experiment | 182 |
The Memo | 213 |
A Deadly Interrogation | 238 |
Blowback | 261 |
Coverup | 295 |
Cast of Key Characters | 346 |
Bibliography | 380 |
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War ... Jane Mayer Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |