Inside Out

Acknowledgments

I couldn’t have written Inside Out without the books and other sources I mention after these acknowledgments, and I couldn’t have written it without the generous help of my agent, editor, friends, and family, either. My thanks to:

My agent, Dan Conaway of Writers House, and editor Mark Tavani of Ballantine Books, for getting what I was trying to do with this story from the begi

A whole bunch of superb bloggers and other journalists, for the reporting and commentary out of which this story grew. To name just a few: Juan Cole, Informed Comment; Digby, Hullabaloo; Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; Gle

The Washington Post’s Barton Gellman, author of the superb Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, for coining the term “information laundering” that appears in the prologue.

John Alkire, Tom Bourke, Jason Evans, Scott Gentry, and Ken Rosenberg, for their expertise on international banking, and for steering me toward uncut diamonds as an appropriate means of anonymous exchange.

Ron Winston, for sharing his peerless expertise on diamonds and the diamond industry.

Tom Hayse, for everything I needed to know about satellite phone security.

Peyton Qui

Jane Litte of dearauthor.com and Sarah Wendell of smartbitchestrashybooks.com-smart, insightful, hilarious critics-for terrific feedback on the sex scene. If there’s something you don’t like about the scene in question, I hope it goes without saying that Jane and Sarah are entirely to blame.

The extraordinarily eclectic group of “foodies with a violence problem” who hang out at Marc “Animal” MacYoung’s and Dia

Alan Eisler, Judith Eisler, Tom Hayes, novelist J. A. Konrath, Naomi Andrews and Dan Levin, Owen Re

Most of all, my wife Laura, for never being too busy to help me figure out a story point or to indulge my political rants. Thanks, babe, for everything.

Sources

When this book was in manuscript form, it contained over eighty footnotes. I was tempted to keep them in the text, but in the end I judged them too distracting from the story. As a compromise, I moved the references here. You can also find them on my website.

First New York Times report of torture tapes destruction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/washington/06cnd-intel.html?bl &ex=1197090000 &en=3a8e1ed53c7d157e &ei=5087%0A

Second New York Times report-not two tapes, but ninety-two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/washington/03web-intel.html

Torture tape time line.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004872.php

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004887.php

http://www.slate.com/id/2179607/sidebar/2179658/

CIA urges suppression of documents related to the torture tapes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060804117.html?hpid=topnews

Mainstream media’s euphemistic contortions regarding U.S. torture.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/08/torture/

Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.

“The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody ca

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/

supporting/2008/Detainees.121108.pdf

What the Gang of Eight knew about the torture program.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/09/democrats/

ACLU Freedom of Information Act requests for information on treatment of terrorist suspects.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2007/1212-04.htm

How the CIA dodged court orders covering terror prisoners.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1200594608313

The CIA destroyed records documenting torture.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/case-missing-torture-documents

Dick Cheney admits to waterboarding.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/jonathan_landay/story/14893.html

Records of what was on the interrogation videos.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39094prs20090320.html

Information laundering-how the government uses the media to turn talking points into news stories.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/11/

petraeus_interview/

And another example of how the government and mainstream media cooperatively propagandize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?_r=3 &pagewanted=1 &hp

Manila city jail.

http://www.hurights.or.jp/asia-pacific/039/05.htm

http://kuwentos.wordpress.com/2004/10/06/manila-city-jail/

Pinwale, the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html

Why bounty hunting isn’t a great way to catch terrorists.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090029

The CIA’s terrorist interrogation “mosaic.”

http://www.thewashingto

some_truths_abo/

CIA use of Boeing for rendition flights to black sites.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030

ta_talk_mayer

Secretary of State Rice’s version of “If the president does it, it means it’s not illegal.”

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/30/condi_rice_defends_

torture_as_legal_and_right

The torture memos.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2009/04/the-torture-memos.html

The CIA as fall guy for Iraq.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames/120112

Force drift.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/27/060227fa_fact?currentPage=all

How to turn permission to torture into a limitation on torture (and blame field perso

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/22/colbert/

index.html

http://www.nytimes/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html?pagewanted=1

U.S. policy on sleep deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, beatings.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614

The U.S. torture program led to no useful intelligence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html

How the Bush administration used torture to try to establish a Saddam Hussein/al Qaeda link.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html

Scapegoating of enlisted perso