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A dramatic and damning narrative accounts of how America has fought the
"War on Terror"
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the united states were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to fight terrorists and improve national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, however the key players, Vice Chief executive Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the problems to further a long held agenda to improve Presidential power to a degree never known in U.S. background, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.
THE Deep Area is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative accounts of how the USA made horrible decisions in the quest for terrorists round the world-- decisions that not only violated the Constitution to which White House officers needed an oath to uphold, but also hampered the quest for Al Qaeda. In gripping fine detail, acclaimed New Yorker writer and bestselling creator, Jane Mayer, relates the impact of the decisions—U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, were subjected to treatment more similar to the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century.
THE Deep Area will chronicle real, specific situations, shown in real time against the bigger tableau of that which was happening in Washington, considering the intellect gained—or not—and the price paid. Occasionally, torture worked. In many more, it led to wrong information, sometimes with damaging results. For instance, there is the beautiful admission of 1 of the detainees, Sheikh Ibn al-Libi, that the confession he gave under duress—which provided a key piece of evidence buttressing congressional support of going to warfare against Iraq--was in reality fabricated, to make the torture stop.
In all situations, whatever the short term gains, there were incalculable loss in conditions of moral position, and our country's devote the world, and its own sense of itself. THE Deep Area chronicles one of the most troubling chapters in American background, the one which will serve as the long lasting legacy of the George W. Bush presidency.
