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One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Bestseller
With a New Afterword
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A Best Book of the Year: Salon， Slate， The Economist， The Washington Post， Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Dark Side is a dramatic， riveting， and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution， but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail， Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players， namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful， secretive adviser David Addington， exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history， and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.
From Publishers Weekly
This hard-hitting expose examines both the controversial excesses of the war on terror and the home-front struggle to circumvent legal obstacles to its prosecution. New Yorker correspondent Mayer (Strange Justice) details the battle within the Bush Administration over a new anti-terrorism policy of harsh interrogations， indefinite detentions without due process， extraordinary renditions， secret CIA prisons and warrantless wiretappings. Fighting with memos and legal briefs， Mayer reports， hard-liners led by Dick Cheney， his aide David Addingtion and then-Justice Department lawyer John Yoo rejected any constraints on the treatment of prisoners or limitations on presidential power in fighting terrorism， while less militant administration lawyers invoked the Constitution and international law to oppose their initiatives. As a counterpoint to the wrangling over the definition of torture and the Geneva Conventions， the author looks at the use of techniques like waterboarding， stress positions， sleep deprivation and sexual humiliation against prisoners by the American military and CIA; her chilling account compellingly argues that this ?enhanced interrogation? regimen constitutes torture. The result is a must-read: a meticulous behind-the-scenes reconstruction of policymaking that demonstrates how legal abstractions became an ugly reality.
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