“This book should be required reading for every American citizen. Mayer documents how G. W. Bush let himself be carried away by the zealotry of a handful of neo-conservatives on his staff leading to the creation of "invisible" CIA detention centers, a misguided and morally wrong approach to interrogation that infiltrated the military at Abu Ghraib, and a willful denial of the federal balance of powers. The only bright spot in the whole sordid mess is the few men and women within the system who recognized that what was at stake were the ideals this country was founded upon and fought to protect those.”
jeannes wrote this review Friday, August 15 2008.
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