Inside Out
Sources
When Inside Out 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 to the end of the book and put them here on the website, too. Read the underlying sources and you’ll see that while this story is a work of the imagination, it’s based on actual events.
During the year in which I wrote the book, various people privy to its plot were concerned the CIA interrogation tapes would surface and overtake the story. I told them not to worry: those tapes would never see the light of day. They haven’t. And they never will.
— First New York Times report of torture tapes destruction
— Second New York Times report—not two tapes, but 92.
— Torture Tape Timeline, also view talkingpointsmemo.com, slate.com and aclu.org
— CIA urges suppression of documents related to the torture tapes
— Mainstream media’s euphemistic contortions regarding U.S. torture
— What the Gang of Eight knew about the torture program
— How the CIA dodged court orders covering terror prisoners
— The CIA destroyed records documenting torture, also view firedoglake.com
— And another example of how the government and mainstream media cooperatively propagandize
— Manila City Jail, also view kuwentos.wordpress.com
— Pinwale, the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance program
— CIA use of Boeing for rendition flights to black sites
— Secretary of State Rice’s version of, “If the president does it, it means it’s not illegal.”
— Force drift, also on nytimes.com
— How to turn permission to torture into a limitation on torture (and blame field personnel for exceeding it), also on nytimes.com
— U.S. policy on sleep deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, beatings
— The U.S. torture program led to no useful intelligence
— Scapegoating of enlisted personnel for torture at Abu Ghraib
— Jonathan Turley’s article on Abu Ghraib scapegoating and the abdication of command responsibility
— Dan Choi, Arab linguist driven from the military for being gay
— We can make a terrorist talk, but we can’t get him to talk in English
— Assassination ring operating out of the Office of the Vice President
— CIA briefs Congress on a CIA assassination program
— Outsourcing assassination to Blackwater
— How to destroy a citizen through trial by media, also view salon.com
— Over half of America supports torture
— Over sixty percent of Evangelicals support torture
— CIA Black sites, also view washingtonpost.com
— Ghost detainees at black sites
— How the CIA built the black site prisons
— The Supreme Court rules terror suspects have the right to petition for habeas corpus
— Government releases terror suspects it can’t charge
— Waterboarding someone 183 times in a month
— Covering up that we didn’t know who we had imprisoned at Guanttánamo
— U.S. torture—a jihadist recruitment bonanza
— Senator Durbin: Congress is corporate-owned
— Health care reform creates new customers for the insurance companies and big pharma
— Halliburton profits from Iraq and Afghanistan
— Marshall Plan as corporate welfare.
Thomas J. McCormick, “Drift or Mastery? A Corporatist Synthesis for American Diplomatic History.” Reviews in American History 10, no. 4 (December 1982).
— Congress’s turnover lower than North Korean Politburo’s
— The oligarchy includes journalists
— Arthur Andersen was examining Enron
Sign up for Barry's Newsletter: Subscribe