http://www.law.whittier.edu/pdfs/cstudents/wlr-v27n3-smith-abstract.pdf

Jonathan Turley’s article on Abu Ghraib scapegoating and the abdication of command responsibility.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-06-06-turley-edit_x.htm

Dan Choi, Arab linguist, driven from the military for being gay.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-belkin/obama-to-fire-his-first-g_b_199070.html

We can make a terrorist talk, but we can’t get him to talk in English.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/dan-choi-daily-show_n_203830.html

Assassination ring operating out of the Office of the Vice President.

http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/

investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_

executive_assassination_ring

The vice president’s plan to override the Fourth Amendment and use active-duty military to arrest U.S. citizens on American soil.

http://www.secgov.info/2009/07/classification-and-constitution.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html

CIA briefs Congress on a CIA assassination program.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/panetta-acknowledged-cia_n_228321.html

CIA lies to Congress.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/07/lying-congress

Doctors assist in torture.

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004704

Outsourcing assassination to Blackwater.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?_r=1 &hp

Contractors rape with impunity.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9342

How to destroy a citizen through trial by media.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/04/anthrax/

Over half of America supports torture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/poll-slight-majority-of-a_n_210700.html

Over sixty percent of Evangelicals support torture.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/

CIA black sites.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_

mayer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702214.html

CIA secret prison system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html?_r=2 &hp= &pagewanted=all

CIA shuttled ghost detainees through Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantánamo, and other prisons so the Red Cross couldn’t verify their existence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html

Ghost detainees at black sites.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10819080

How the CIA built the black site prisons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html

The Supreme Court rules terror suspects have the right to petition for habeas corpus.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/12/boumediene/

Government releases terror suspects it can’t charge.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/31/detention/

index.html

Waterboarding someone 183 times in a month.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/18/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-was-waterboarded-183-times-in-one-month/

JSOC run from the Office of the Vice President.

http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/04/01/7800/seymour_

hersh_cheney_left_allies_behind_in_national_security_posts_and_may_

still_influence_events

CIA inspector general’s report on torture.

http://washingtonindependent.com/56175/the-2004-cia-inspector-generals-report-on-torture

Schlein Vineyard wines.

http://www.schleinvineyard.com/

We didn’t know who we were imprisoning at Guantánamo.

http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/

Covering up that we didn’t know who we had imprisoned at Guantánamo.

http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/

We knew most Guantánamo prisoners were innocent.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/

some_truths_abo/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/ex-bush-official-Guantanamo-bay-innocent/

U.S. torture-a jihadist recruitment bonanza.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004036

Torture radicalizes prisoners.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/68872.html

Senator Durbin: Congress is corporate-owned.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html

Health care reform creates new customers for the insurance companies and big pharma.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-healthcare-insurers24-2009aug24,0,4551786.story

The AIG bailout was a way of funneling money to Goldman Sachs.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_

takeover/print

Halliburton profits from Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

Marshall Plan as corporate welfare.

Thomas J. McCormick. “Drift or Mastery? A Corporatist Synthesis for American Diplomatic History.” Reviews in American History 10, no. 4 (December 1982).

Congress’s turnover lower than North Korean Politburo’s.

http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av11-9-06.html

The mainstream media as “Church of the Savvy.”

http://uscmediareligion.org/?theScoop &scID=185

Why France lost in Algeria even though torture “worked.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/04/23/torture/

The oligarchy includes journalists.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393/

Arthur Andersen was examining Enron.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrence-mcnally/qa-with-michael-lewis-par_b_248357.html

The credit agencies were examining the subprimes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402902_pf.html

Above a certain pay grade, a politician can never be prosecuted or imprisoned.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes

Bipartisanship isn’t all you might hope.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes

The leviathan only grows.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/07/02/

savage/index1.html

Bibliography

In addition to the sources listed in the preceding section, this story draws on a number of excellent books, all of which I would recommend to anyone interested in exploring the political reality behind my fiction.

THE U.S. TORTURE PROGRAM

Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh.

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh.

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer.

Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law by Christopher H. Pyle.

Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program by Stephen Grey.

How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo.

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W. McCoy.

Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali.

The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable by David Cole.

The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen J. Greenberg.

Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands.

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner

Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture by Jennifer K. Harbury.

Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters by Richard A. Clarke.