Acknowledgments
I couldn’t have written Inside Out without the books and other sources I mention after these acknowledgments, and I couldn’t have written it without the generous help of my agent, editor, friends, and family, either. My thanks to:
My agent, Dan Conaway of Writers House, and editor Mark Tavani of Ballantine Books, for getting what I was trying to do with this story from the beginning, enriching it considerably with their input, and for reading and rereading the sex scene beyond what editorial requirements could ordinarily explain.
A whole bunch of superb bloggers and other journalists, for the reporting and commentary out of which this story grew. To name just a few: Juan Cole, Informed Comment; Digby, Hullabaloo; Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory; Hilzoy, Obsidian Wings (Hilzoy, come back!); Scott Horton, No Comment; Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo; Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish; Marcy Wheeler, Firedoglake. Some others I admire have characters named after them in this book and in my other books, too-see if you can spot them. And you can find even more on the blogroll of Heart of the Matter at www.barryeisler.com/blog.html. If you like your journalism independent rather than corporate-owned and corporate-addled, I recommend reading these people every day.
The Washington Post’s Barton Gellman, author of the superb Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, for coining the term “information laundering” that appears in the prologue.
John Alkire, Tom Bourke, Jason Evans, Scott Gentry, and Ken Rosenberg, for their expertise on international banking, and for steering me toward uncut diamonds as an appropriate means of anonymous exchange.
Ron Winston, for sharing his peerless expertise on diamonds and the diamond industry.
Tom Hayse, for everything I needed to know about satellite phone security.
Peyton Quinn, for familiarizing Ben with the notion of the pre-violence “interview” that appears in chapter one-and more of which can be found at www.rmcat.com.
Jane Litte of dearauthor.com and Sarah Wendell of smartbitchestrashybooks.com-smart, insightful, hilarious critics-for terrific feedback on the sex scene. If there’s something you don’t like about the scene in question, I hope it goes without saying that Jane and Sarah are entirely to blame.
The extraordinarily eclectic group of “foodies with a violence problem” who hang out at Marc “Animal” MacYoung’s and Dianna Gordon’s nononsenseselfdefense.com, for good humor, good fellowship, and a ton of insights, particularly regarding the real costs of violence.
Alan Eisler, Judith Eisler, Tom Hayes, novelist J. A. Konrath, Naomi Andrews and Dan Levin, Owen Rennert, Ted Schlein, and Hank Shiffman, for helpful comments on the manuscript and many valuable suggestions and insights along the way.
Most of all, my wife Laura, for never being too busy to help me figure out a story point or to indulge my political rants. Thanks, babe, for everything.
Sources
When this book was in manuscript form, it contained over eighty footnotes. I was tempted to keep them in the text, but in the end I judged them too distracting from the story. As a compromise, I moved the references here. You can also find them on my website.
First New York Times report of torture tapes destruction.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/washington/06cnd-intel.html?bl &ex=1197090000 &en=3a8e1ed53c7d157e &ei=5087%0A
Second New York Times report-not two tapes, but ninety-two.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/washington/03web-intel.html
Torture tape time line.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004872.php
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004887.php
http://www.slate.com/id/2179607/sidebar/2179658/
CIA urges suppression of documents related to the torture tapes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060804117.html?hpid=topnews
Mainstream media’s euphemistic contortions regarding U.S. torture.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/08/torture/
Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
“The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of ‘a few bad apples’ acting on their own. The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority.”
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/
supporting/2008/Detainees.121108.pdf
What the Gang of Eight knew about the torture program.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/09/democrats/
ACLU Freedom of Information Act requests for information on treatment of terrorist suspects.
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2007/1212-04.htm
How the CIA dodged court orders covering terror prisoners.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1200594608313
The CIA destroyed records documenting torture.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/case-missing-torture-documents
Dick Cheney admits to waterboarding.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/jonathan_landay/story/14893.html
Records of what was on the interrogation videos.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39094prs20090320.html
Information laundering-how the government uses the media to turn talking points into news stories.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/11/
petraeus_interview/
And another example of how the government and mainstream media cooperatively propagandize.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?_r=3 &pagewanted=1 &hp
Manila city jail.
http://www.hurights.or.jp/asia-pacific/039/05.htm
http://kuwentos.wordpress.com/2004/10/06/manila-city-jail/
Pinwale, the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html
Why bounty hunting isn’t a great way to catch terrorists.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090029
The CIA’s terrorist interrogation “mosaic.”
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/
some_truths_abo/
CIA use of Boeing for rendition flights to black sites.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030
ta_talk_mayer
Secretary of State Rice’s version of “If the president does it, it means it’s not illegal.”
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/30/condi_rice_defends_
torture_as_legal_and_right
The torture memos.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2009/04/the-torture-memos.html
The CIA as fall guy for Iraq.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames/120112
Force drift.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/27/060227fa_fact?currentPage=all
How to turn permission to torture into a limitation on torture (and blame field personnel for exceeding it).
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/22/colbert/
index.html
http://www.nytimes/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html?pagewanted=1
U.S. policy on sleep deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, beatings.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614
The U.S. torture program led to no useful intelligence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html
How the Bush administration used torture to try to establish a Saddam Hussein/al Qaeda link.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html
Scapegoating of enlisted personnel for torture at Abu Ghraib.