An Evening of Crucial Disclosures by Jane Mayer August 8, 2008

THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Became a War on American Ideals

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WHAT THE CIA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
The Sunday after September 11, 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney sat down for an interview with Tim Russert on "Meet the Press." Cheney said:

"We'll have to work sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies if we are going to be successful."
Since 2001 New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer has been investigating and reporting on what the dark side really means. For the first time, she pieces together the full story of how Cheney, and a handful of extraordinarily powerful, but almost unknown lawyers including his Chief of Staff David Addington, took command of the war on terrorism. They seized on the mood of national fear to institute a top secret, covert program that twisted or ignored 221 years of constitutional history. She chronicles the behind-the-scenes meetings in the White House, Justice Department and CIA, and shows how the decisions taken behind closed doors in Washington spiraled out around the world, often with unintended consequences, violated the Constitution, and dramatically hindered the pursuit of Al Qaeda.

Jane Mayer is the co-author of two best-selling narrative non-fiction books, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1984-1988, and STRANGE JUSTICE: THE SELLING OF CLARENCE THOMAS, the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Before that, she was a senior writer, front page editor, and first female White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

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