[Marxism] Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side

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By Scott Horton
Harper's
 
In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush  
Administrationâs grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both 
the  
individuals within the administration who âmade it happenâ (a group that 
starts  
with Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington), the team 
of  psychologists who put together the palette of techniques, and the Fox 
television  program â24,â which was developed to help sell it to the 
American 
public. In a  new book, The Dark Side, Mayer puts together the major 
conclusions 
from  her articles and fills in a number of important gaps. Most 
significantly, we  learn the details on the torture techniques and the drama 
behind the 
fierce and  lingering struggle within the administration over torture, and we 
learn that  many within the administration recognized the potential criminal 
accountability  they faced over these torture tactics and moved frantically to 
protect  themselves from possible future prosecution. I put six questions to 
Jane Mayer  on the subject of her book, The Dark Side.

<http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003234>



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