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Mayer and Colbert: "Ideals are eternal"

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August 14, 1:50 PM

by Jay McDonough, Progressive Politics Examiner

Author Jane Mayer ("The Dark Side") appeared on The Colbert Report.

Topics: Jane Mayer , Stephen Colbert , The Dark Side

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"The Dark Side"

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August 6, 10:36 AM

I spent the last couple days reading Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" Mayer's book chronicles the Bush Administrations implementation and advocacy of torture as an interrogation tool in the war on terror. It's hard to imagine any American... Read More
Topics: Torture , "The Dark Side" , Jane Mayer

"Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools"

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July 15, 5:19 PM

Philip Zelikow (former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, served on the Bush transition team in 2000/2001, former counselor to Secretary of State Condi Rice, served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and now a historian who... Read More
Topics: Torture , "The Dark Side" , Jane Mayer