As much as any other reporter, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer has helped expose the post-9/11 system of detention, rendition and abuse of 'enemy combatants.' Her book out today, "The Dark Side," significantly expands on her reporting. We talked to Mayer about how the move to the system started with bureaucratic bungling and the curiously passive role of President Bush, who kept "disappearing from the frame." Full Story »
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Eric Umansky talks with The New Yorker's Jane Mayer about her new book "The Dark Side" detailing the post-9/11 system of detention, rendition and abuse of enemy combatants. She says that incompetence and bureaucratic bungling, not inadequate laws, led to the 2001 terrorist attacks. Communication failures between the FBI and CIA were critical and the Administration at first lacked political will to use lethal force against al-Qaida. Mayer describes the irony of an administration then focused on expanding presidential authority being incapable of exercising the powers it already held. She believes that President Bush was absent from designing the response to terrorism. She says, "He keeps disappearing from the frame of the ... More »
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