"Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.

Maps on end papers.

Includes index.

Veteran investigative journalist Hersh has frequently described his recent writings for the New Yorker as an "alternative history of the Iraq war." In his attempts to piece together actual lines of ideological and bureaucratic responsibility for the conduct of the Bush administration's "War on Terror," he certainly does provide an alternative to the shallow coverage of much of the American fourth estate. This text gathers most of the New Yorker investigations through 2004 and adds a significant amount of supplementary material, providing, among other things, reconstruction of how the interrogation techniques approved for Guantanamo Bay "enemy combatants" spread and morphed into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, a description of military failures to capture Al Qaeda forces in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan in November 2001, and a profile of the neoconservative "cult" who managed to manufacture a case for war through the use of "faulty intelligence." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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