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DESCRIPTION:An Evening of Crucial Disclosures by Jane Mayer 
 \n————————————————————————————\nTHE 
 DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror \nBecame a War on 
 American Ideals\n\n(free parking, wheelchair access)\n\nBenefit: KPFA Radio 
 94.1FM   Sponsored by KPFA Radio\nTickets: $10 at supportive bookstores & 
 on line: wwwbrownpapertickets.com/event/38919, $13 door \n\nInformation: 
 510.848.6767x611  or www.kpfa.org\n\nWHAT THE CIA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO 
 KNOW\nThe Sunday after September 11, 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney sat 
 down for an interview with Tim Russert on “Meet the Press.” In that 
 much quoted interview, Cheney gave a memorable description of how the 
 administration viewed the continuing threat and how it planned to 
 respond:\n \n“We’ll have to work sort of the dark side, if you will. 
 We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot 
 of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any 
 discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our 
 intelligence agencies if we are going to be successful. That’s the world 
 these folks operate in. And, uh, so it’s going to be vital for us to use 
 any means at our disposal basically, to achieve our objectives.”\n 
 \nSince 2001 New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer has been investigating and 
 reporting on what the dark side really means. For the first time, she 
 pieces together the full story of how Cheney, and a handful of 
 extraordinarily powerful, but almost unknown lawyers including his Chief of 
 Staff David Addington, took command of the war on terrorism. They seized on 
 the mood of national fear to institute a top secret, covert program that 
 twisted or ignored 221 years of constitutional history. She chronicles the 
 behind-the-scenes meetings in the White House, Justice Department and CIA, 
 and shows how the decisions taken behind closed doors in Washington 
 spiraled out around the world, often with unintended consequences, violated 
 the Constitution, and dramatically hindered the pursuit of Al Qaeda.\n  
 \nHere are some of the revelations: \n•	The single minded campaign, born 
 in the office of the Vice President, to legalize torture and expand the 
 President’s powers as “Commander-in-Chief” to the point of unchecked 
 authority with the ability to violate virtually any law. \n•	The first 
 full account of the secret Red Cross report describing the detailed 
 allegations of torture made by the CIA’s top fourteen terror suspects — 
 all of whom are currently held in Guantanamo Bay -- and the Red Cross’s 
 warning to the United States government that this treatment unequivocally 
 constituted “torture,” exposing Bush Administration officials to 
 prosecution for war crimes. \n•	The personal reasons that drove Dick 
 Cheney to so many undisclosed locations post-9/11 ¬ including his fear 
 that he had personally been exposed to Anthrax. \n•	Details about the 
 scores of innocent people the United States Government has abused 
 ¬including the inside story of a mistaken CIA “rendition,” and the 
 revelation that the CIA is investigating a half-dozen more such erroneous 
 kidnappings.\n•	The unorthodox CIA psychologists who advocated the use of 
 Cold War KGB methods intended to obtain false confessions, and the near 
 complete lack of actionable intelligence gained from these un-American 
 techniques.\n•	The viral spread of legally dubious torture techniques 
 from an obscure U.S. military training program, known as “SERE,” 
 throughout the U.S. war on terror.\n•	Previously unpublished, shocking 
 details showing what the CIA did to detainees to make them talk and new 
 revelations about the growing doubts and fights within the intelligence 
 agency over these harrowing tactics.\n•	The fear of criminal charges that 
 drove the CIA to destroy interrogation videotapes ¬ and what the tapes may 
 have shown.\n•	Vice President Cheney’s intimidation of the U.S. 
 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who admitted he disagreed with the 
 torture program, but couldn’t fight back.\n•	The stories of the brave 
 dissenters, many of who were lifelong conservatives, inside the 
 administration, as well as the military officers and FBI agents, who openly 
 challenged the legality of these practices and lost their jobs in the 
 process. Two top Justice Department officials critical of the White House 
 became so fearful; they conversed in codes, in case their phones were 
 tapped.\n•	The mounting of a secret internal rebellion aimed at closing 
 Guantanamo.\n•	The admission by Cofer Black, the former head of the 
 CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, that he expected to be indicted some day 
 for the program they ran.\n•	The striking declaration by Condoleezza 
 Rice’s former counselor, Phillip Zelikow, that the Bush 
 Administration’s descent into torture will be seen as abhorrently as 
 Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese during World War Two.\n 
 \nAbout the Author: \nJane Mayer is the co-author of two best-selling 
 narrative non-fiction books, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 
 1984-1988, and STRANGE JUSTICE: THE SELLING OF CLARENCE THOMAS, the latter 
 of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a 
 Washington-based staff writer for The New Yorker, specializing in political 
 and investigative reporting. Before that, she was a senior writer and front 
 page editor for The Wall Street Journal, as well as the Journal's first 
 female White House correspondent. \n \n 
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Crucial Disclosures by Jane Mayer
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