Amy Goodman interviews JANE MAYER

The Dark Side: the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/18/the_dark_side_jane_mayer_on

We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush administration last year that the CIA's treatment of prisoners categorically constituted torture and could make Bush administration officials who approved the torture methods guilty of war crimes. Mayer also reveals that the Bush administration ignored warnings from the CIA six years ago that up to a third of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake. [includes rush transcript-partial]

Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

NOTE: Book signing event Friday August 8: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/17/18517054.php