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

— Treatment of terror prisoners, as detailed by Physicians for Human Rights in its groundbreaking Broken Laws, Broken Lives report

— Confidential International Committee of the Red Cross report on the treatment of 14 “high value CIA detainees” in CIA Custody

— 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.”

— The torture memos

— 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

— The vice president’s plan to override the Fourth Amendment and use active-duty military to arrest U.S. citizens on American soil

— CIA briefs Congress on a CIA assassination program

— CIA lies to Congress

— Doctors assist in torture

— 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

— CIA secret prison system

— CIA shuttles ghost detainees through Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo, and other prisons so the Red Cross couldn’t verify their existence

— 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

— Schlein Vineyard wines

— 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

— The credit agencies were examining the subprimes

— Are the Caspers real?