New York Times:
Sunday Book Review cover: Alan Brinkley on The Dark Side by Jane Mayer: "In some respects, the Bush administration is simply following a
familiar path by responding to real dangers with illegal and deplorable
methods. But Jane Mayer’s extraordinary and invaluable book suggests
that it would be difficult to find any precedent in American history
for the scale, brutality and illegality of the torture and degradation
inflicted on detainees over the last six years; and that it would be
even harder to imagine a set of policies more likely to increase the
dangers facing the United States and the world."
Thomas Mallon on[...]