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Abbas, Mahmoud, 18
Abdullah, king of Saudi Arabia, 199
Abramoff, Jack, 62
Abu Ghraib prison, 40, 155–63, 168, 169, 174–77, 180–84, 185, 231
Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 172
Abu Omar (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr), 29–32
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 36, 38, 50–52, 182, 186, 260
ACT UP, 283–85
Afghanistan
- prisons in, 25, 35–36, 38, 40, 42, 165, 176, 185
- rebuilding, 75
- staging area for, 255
AIDS, 283–85
Albania, kidnapping victims in, 25, 37
Albright, Madeleine, 277–82
Alexandre, Régine, 129–30
Al Jazeera, 66, 191–98
Allen, Claude, 62
Allende, Salvador, 96
Almalki, Abdullah, 20, 21
Al Mutamar, 65
al Qaeda, 7, 18, 22, 26, 33, 39, 60, 88–89, 98, 165, 181
Al-Sabah, 68
Alsop, Joseph, 92
American Enterprise Institute, 71, 111, 124, 128
American Friends Service Committee, 48, 52
“America’s Gulag” (Grey), 42
Amin Dada, Idi, 124, 125
Amnesty International, 26, 42, 129, 169, 228
Anderson, Charlie, 220
Anderson, Rocky, 177–78, 181
Anderson, Warren, 272, 274, 277
Andijan massacre, 254–55
Andrews, Mary Catherine, 102
Angelou, Maya, 268
Annan, Kofi, 227
antiwar groups
- FBI actions against, 47–48, 52, 54
- military and veterans in, 222–43
- Pentagon reports on, 56–58
Arafat, Yasir, 299
Arar, Maher, 17, 19–24, 26–30
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 113–29, 130–31
- coups against, 116, 118–19
- in exile, 116, 126
- grassroots support of, 125
- kidnapping of, 113–14, 119–23
- reelection of, 117–19
- rise to political office, 115–16
- U.S. threats against, 123–29
Arkin, William, 56
Armstrong, John, 177, 180
Army, U.S.
- chemical weapons used by, 189
- in Iraq, see Iraq
- post-traumatic stress disorder in, 236
- recruitment practices of, 227, 235–43
- rules of engagement, 156, 159
- School of the Americas, 18, 116
- suicide rates in, 224
- U.S. citizenship obtained in, 230
Ashanin, Marina, 275
Ashcroft, John, 27, 179
Associated Press (AP), 91, 96, 129, 141
AT&T, 58, 59
Atkins, Kirsten, 53
Attiya, Shawki Salama, 25
Auguste, So Ann, 128
Ayoub, Tariq, 192

Baer, Robert, 31
Bailey, Christine, 64
Baldawi, Luay, 65
Bangert, Joe, 225–26
Barber, Allison, 86
Bardwell, Sarah, 48–49, 53
Barnes, Fred, 269
Barr, Bob, 104
Barton, Joe, 204
Battle of Algiers (film), 150–51
Bauer, Karen, 257–60
Bay of Pigs, 43–45
Beauprez, Bob, 257
Begala, Paul, 286–87
Belafonte, Harry, 268
Benjamin, Mark, 164
“Be Nobody’s Darling” (Walker), 295–96
Berger, Sandy, 138, 278, 281
Bernanke, Ben, 267
Bernstein, Carl, 91, 93
Berry, Willis, 172
Bhopal toxic leak, 271–77
Biko, Steve, 296
Bill of Rights, 6, 57
Bingham, Barry Sr., 91
bin Laden, Osama, 9, 20, 70, 144
Birnbaum, Jeff, 217
Blair, Tony, 11–12, 191, 244, 250
Blumenthal, Max, 126–27
Bodman, Samuel, 200
Boehlert, Eric, 104
Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, 124, 125
Boston Globe, 125–26, 204, 288
Boucher, Richard, 254
Boykoff, Maxwell and Jules, 111
Bozizé, François, 121
BP Capital Management, 206
Bradlee, Ben, 47
Bremer, Paul, 67
Breslin, Jimmy, 285
Brown, Michael, 3
Bull, Peter, 108
Bumiller, Elizabeth, 289, 291
Bush, George H. W., 97, 199–200, 267, 284
Bush, George W.
- as above the law, 18–19, 30, 144, 288
- approval ratings of, 5, 6, 62
- conversation with U.S. troops, 86–88
- election of, 10–11, 18
- illusion preferred by, 6, 76, 200, 201, 260
- on prison abuses, 42, 154, 176
- public appearances of, 257–65, 266–70
- on torture, 31, 149, 153–54, 165, 166, 167, 251
- and Uzbekistan, 251, 253–56
- on vacation, 2, 5, 211, 212, 213
- on war in Iraq, 211, 219
- warrantless eavesdropping authorized by, 6, 28, 58–61
- wartime powers of, 6, 154, 166, 191
Bush, Laura, 265–66
Bush administration
- civil liberties curtailed by, 8–9, 26, 61, 146, 260–61, 266, 267–68
- fading credibility of, 39, 216
- and Haiti, 118–29
- and Hurricane Katrina, 1–5, 62
- lies by, 38–39, 61, 149, 216, 237
- loyalty oaths required by, 263
- marriage initiative of, 79–80
- media controlled by, 1, 6–14, 67, 100, 110, 191–94, 196–98, 213, 214, 258, 260, 268–69
- media stories faked by, 73–89, 263, 269
- and national security, 26, 27–28, 38
- no-bid contracts for, 4, 66, 68–69, 215
- and oil, 199–206
- perpetuating fear, 6
- press conferences by, 81–86
- and prison abuses, 40, 168–77, 180–88
- propaganda distributed by, 7–8, 9, 62–72, 74–77, 78–80, 88–89, 163, 217, 257–58
- secrecy in, 110, 202
- and September 11 attacks, 10–11, 18, 103
- silencing dissent, 110, 261–66, 268
- torture sanctioned by, 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 26, 30, 32, 86, 149–50, 151–67, 181–87, 247–50, 251–52
- and Uzbekistan, 245–52, 253–56
- whistle-blowers threatened by, 8, 216
Butler, Smedley, 115
Bybee, Jay, 166
Byrne, Brennan, 190

Cambone, Stephen, 183, 185
Canada, fleeing to, 223, 226–27, 230–32
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), 121
Carlson, Tucker, 286–88
Carlyle Group, 200
Carter, Jimmy, 267–68, 269
Casey, George W. Jr., 8
Casper, Michael, 260
Castro, Fidel, 43, 96
Catledge, Turner, 44
CBS, 91, 93–94, 106
Cedras, Raoul, 116
Center for Constitutional Rights, 27–28, 185–86
Center for Media and Democracy, 77
Center on Conscience and War, 227
Chalabi, Ahmad, 9, 65, 70, 98
Chavez, Hugo, 129–30, 268
Cheney, Dick, 2, 199
- energy manipulations of, 110, 200, 201–3
- public appearances of, 257, 258, 263, 264
- torture promoted by, 19, 42, 149, 167
- on warrantless eavesdropping, 59–60
Chertoff, Michael, 2
China
- and Clinton, 135
- nuclear advances of, 141
- spying for, 132, 133–43
Chrétien, Jean, 27
Church Committee, 47, 92, 97
CIA
- in Afghanistan, 35
- and Bay of Pigs, 43–44
- Church Committee investigation of, 97
- disinformation disseminated by, 95–96
- in Eastern Europe, 39–43
- in Egypt, 30, 31
- in Haiti, 117
- and heroin market, 97
- and Iraqi National Congress, 9
- journalists’ assignments for, 90–99
- kidnappings by, 21, 24–25, 29–32, 37–39
- laws regarding propaganda of, 95
- lawsuits against, 38
- in Macedonia, 34–35
- parallel universe of, 94–98
- plausible deniability with, 92
- propaganda contracts of, 70
- smear campaigns by, 96–97
- torture promoted by, 149, 151–53, 160–64, 250, 251
- and Vietnam, 18
Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, 46–48, 61
Clark, Ramsey, 228
Clark, Tish, 75
Clinton, Bill, 104, 134, 135, 140–41, 143, 267
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 81
Clinton administration
- extraordinary rendition in, 24–25
- and Iraq, 216, 277–82
CNN
- and Clinton town meeting, 277–82
- Crossfire, 286–88
- and Haiti, 123
- and Hurricane Katrina, 1, 3
- and prison abuses, 41
- and propaganda, 69–70
- and warrantless eavesdropping, 59
- and Wen Ho Lee, 141
Coalition Provisional Authority, 66
Coates, Linda, 262
Coats, Daniel R., 38
Cohen, William, 278, 281
COINTELPRO, 47–48, 58
Colbert, Stephen, 288–91
Colby, William, 92, 94, 95
Cold War, 90–94, 133
Collins, Patrick, 116–17
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 192–93
Congress, U.S.
- financial contributions to, 18–19, 203–6
- GAO as investigative arm of, 74
- giveaways to corporations by, 111
- and Haiti, 115
- and public radio, 100
- and torture, 153–54, 166–67
Connolly, Ceci, 217
Constant, Emmanuel “Toto,” 116–17
Constitution, U.S., 6, 11, 57, 288
Contratto, Dana, 202
Copley, James, 91
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), 74, 100–112
Coulter, Ann, 82
Council of Europe, 43
Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), 57
Covert, Carol, 136, 137
Cox, Christopher, 134, 137
Craig, Paige, 64
Crisis, 303–4
Crossfire (CNN), 286–88
Crowley, William J., 55

Dean, Howard, 262
Dearlove, Richard, 12
Defense Department, U.S.
- INC information bought by, 70
- restrictive guidelines of, 56
DeGette, Diana, 259
DeGraff, Nicholas, 51
DeLand, Gary, 177, 178, 179
DeLay, Tom, 62
Delgado, Aidan, 234
democracy, threats to, 6, 69
Democracy Now!
- on Fallujah attacks, 189, 193, 196
- on government intimidation of
- dissenters, 49–50, 51, 54–55, 57, 59
- as grassroots media, 13
- on Haiti, 113, 117, 118, 120, 123, 127–28, 131
- on prison abuses and torture, 41, 42–43, 146–48, 155–60, 177, 179, 183
- on soldiers dying in Iraq, 210, 212, 213–14, 218
- voices of hope on, 292–93
Democratic Convergence, 127
Denver Three, 257–61
Detainee Treatment Act (2005), 153–54, 166–67
Deutch, John, 143
Dionne, E. J. Jr., 42
Dobbs, Bill, 57
Dobbs, Lou, 217
Donatelli, Mark, 179
Dorgan, Byron, 104
Dow Chemical, 271–77
Dowd, Maureen, 82
Downie, Len, 41
Downing, Wayne, 67
Drogin, Bob, 141
Dryfoos, Orvil, 44
Dulles, Allen, 92, 93
Durbin, Richard, 105
Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 115, 126
Duvalier, Jean Claude “Baby Doc,” 115, 116

Eastern Europe, hidden prisons in, 39–43
Eberle, Bobby, 81
Edmondson, John S., 147
Education Department, U.S., 78–79, 80
Egypt
- CIA activities in, 30, 31
- prisons in, 43
- torture in, 21, 25, 30–31, 33, 247
Eisner, Peter, 121
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 59
El-Masri, Khaled, 34–39
Energy Act (2005), 200, 203–6
Energy Department, U.S., 200–204
England, Lynndie, 183, 185
Enron Corporation, 202, 253–54
environmental protection, 205
Evans, Mimi, 218–19
Evans, M. Stanton, 104
Everett, Elena, 53
extraordinary rendition, 24–29, 31, 34–35, 38–39
ExxonMobil, 110–11, 203, 205–6

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), 11, 12, 41, 142
Fairweather, Jack, 70, 71
Faisal, Maher, 68
Fallujah
- Al Jazeera in, 191–98
- body searches in, 158–59
- civilian deaths in, 159, 190, 193, 194–95, 196
- embedded media in, 190–91, 195, 196, 197
- U.S. attacks on, 189–98
Farmer, Paul, 115, 125
FBI
- actions against dissident groups by, 47–48, 52, 54, 268
- and Arar case, 20
- and Chinese spying, 134, 136–40
- COINTELPRO, 47–48, 58
- documents stolen from, 46–48, 61
- Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), 51–55
- political intimidation program of, 49–55
- and warrantless eavesdropping, 60
- and whistle-blowers, 216
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 1, 5
Fenton, Anthony, 129
Fidell, Eugene, 145
Filkins, Dexter, 8
Finisterra, Jude (pseud.), 273–77
First Amendment, 11, 142
Fisk, Robert, 300–301
Fleischer, Ari, 82, 83–84
Foley, James B., 119, 123
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 59
For God and Country (Yee), 147
Fox News, 3, 8, 101, 103, 212, 217, 290
Franks, Tommy, 223
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 51, 260
Freeh, Louis, 138
Friedman, John, 53
Frosch, Dan, 179

Gabriel, Franz, 122–23
Gaines, Gay Hart, 102
Galeano, Eduardo, 303–5
Gallagher, Maggie, 79–80
Gannon, Jeff, 81
Gauger, Randy, 172
Gee, Jim, 76
Geneva Conventions, 6, 18, 159, 165, 184, 185
Gerner, Steven, 261
Gerth, Jeff, 133, 134
Gettleman, Jeffrey, 190
Ghurairy, Jamal al-, 71
Gilbert, Lyle, 69
Gingrich, Newt, 102, 106, 134
GI Rights Hotline, 227
global warming, 110–11, 204
Goff, Stan, 209
Gonzales, Alberto, 8, 185
Goodrich, Austin, 94
Gorelick, Jamie, 32–33
Gossett, Sherrie, 69
Government Accountability Office (GAO), 63, 74, 76, 79, 257
Government Accounting Office (GAO), 202
Graham, Lindsey, 153, 166
Graner, Charles A. Jr., 174–77
Grassley, Chuck, 206
Greenpeace, 52
Grey, Stephen, 42
Guantánamo Bay
- as above the law, 144, 154, 166
- abuse scandals in, 40, 42, 144, 146–47, 161, 165, 176, 185
- CIA in, 40
- illegal detention in, 38, 42
- military executions at, 154
- Muslims arrested in, 145
- prisoners in, 25, 37–38, 146
- torture used in, 7, 153–54, 160, 163–66, 185
- Yee as chaplain at, 143–47
Guardian (U.K.), 192
Guckert, James, 81–82
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 42–43
Guttentag, Lucas, 186

Hagel, Chuck, 103
Haiti, 113–31
- CIA in, 117
- elections in, 130–31
- FRAPH in, 116, 118, 127
- poverty in, 114, 125
- Tonton Macoutes in, 115
- U.S. arms in, 118–19
- U.S. control over, 114–15, 125–27
Halabi, Ahmad, 145, 146
Hale, Brandon, 234
Hall, Ralph, 204
Halliburton, 4, 215, 253–54
Halpern, Cheryl, 102
Hamdi, Yasir, 146
Hannity, Sean, 3
Hansen, Chris, 260
Harper & Row, 97
Harris Corporation, 68–69
Harrison, Gilbert, 43
Harrison, Patricia, 74, 102, 107
Hart, Gary, 97
Hass, Amira, 298–300
Hassan, Salah, 192
Hearst Newspapers, 91
Hebb, Donald O., 161
Hebert, H. Josef, 141
Helms, Jesse, 117–18
Henry, Robert K., 69
Herbst, John, 245
Hersh, Seymour, 181
Hiken, Marti, 189
Hinzman, Jeremy, 231–32
Hitler, Adolf, 76, 128
Hoffman, Mike, 222–23, 224–26, 242
Hoover, J. Edgar, 48
Horn, Martin, 169
Horn, Wade, 79
House, Jeffry, 230–31
Hughey, Brandon, 226–27, 232
Human Rights First, 186
Human Rights Report (State Dept.), 26, 30
Human Rights Watch, 31, 41, 244, 246–47
Hurricane Katrina, 1–5, 13, 62, 268
Hussein, Saddam, 8, 9, 12, 18, 70, 87, 88–89, 163, 216, 278–81

International Islamic Front for Jihad, 25
International Republican Institute (IRI), 126–27
Invisible Government, The (Wise and Ross), 96
Iraq
- and antiwar groups, 54
- ban on stories and images from, 1, 5, 214
- economic sanctions against, 278
- embedded journalists in, 98–99
- endless war in, 5, 6, 13, 62
- Fallujah attacks, 189–98
- oil in, 203, 222
- propaganda in, 6, 7–8, 10, 11, 63–72
- rebuilding, 75
- torture used in, 7, 155–60, 163–64, 181, 182, 185–86, 229
- U.S. bombing of, 277–82
- U.S. invasion of, 12, 33, 84, 216, 227
- U.S. soldier deaths in, 209–20
- war profiteers in, 4
- wish U.S. would leave, 72, 223–24
Iraqex, 64
Iraqi Media Network, 66–67
Iraqi National Congress (INC), 9, 70–71, 98
Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), 7
Iraq Liberation Act (1998), 70
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), 223, 225
Isgitt, Tim, 102
Ives, Kim, 118

Jalon, Allan, 48
JAMRS, Pentagon data project, 239–43
Japanese-Americans, in internment
camps, 132
Jean-Juste, Father Gérard, 129, 131
Jodel Chamblain, Louis, 118
Johanns, Mike, 76
Johnson, Lyndon B., 108
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF, FBI), 51–55
Jordan, torture in, 21, 31, 43
Judicial Watch, 202
Justice Department, U.S., 27, 86, 180

Kahtani, Mohammed al-, 164–65
Karimov, Islam, 244, 245–46, 248, 254, 255
Karpinski, Janis, 183–85, 186
Kearns, Frank, 94
Keller, Bill, 11
Kelliher, Joseph, 202
Kelly, Kathy, 282
Kennedy, John F., 43–45
Kern, Harry, 94
Kerr, Kathie, 79
Kerr-McGee, 204
Khan, Irene, 42
kidnapping
- Abu Omar, 29–32
- Arar, 19–24
- backlash from, 38–39
- El-Masri, 34–39
- extraordinary rendition, 24–29
Kilner, Aaron, 51
Kimmitt, Mark, 8, 190, 194, 195–96, 197
King, Coretta Scott, 267–69
King, Martin Luther Jr., 48, 267–70
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 293
Kitchen, David, 136
Klant, Bob, 234
Klein, Jonathan, 287–88
Klein, Mark, 59
Klinkerman, Jay Bob, 260
Kondracke, Morton, 217, 269
Kornbluh, Peter, 41
Krohn, Charles A., 236
KUBARK Counterintelligence Manual, 162, 164
Kurtz, Kenneth, 122
Kurzban, Ira, 118–19

Lady, Robert Seldon, 32
Lagouranis, Tony, 155–60
Lathem, Mark V., 235
Lautenberg, Frank, 203
Lay, Kenneth, 253
Leahy, Patrick, 57–58
Ledeen, Michael, 124
Lee, Sylvia, 137
Lee, Wen Ho, 133–43, 148
Levin, Carl, 153
Lewis, Fulton Jr., 104
Libi, Ibn al-Shaykh al-, 33
Lichtblau, Eric, 10, 11
Lieberman, Denise, 51
Limbaugh, Rush, 212
Lincoln Group, 64–66, 67, 71
Lockhart, Joe, 141
London Daily Telegraph, 70, 245
London Independent, 138, 300
London Times, 11
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 133, 135, 137
Los Angeles Times, 12, 46, 48, 53, 69, 137, 138, 141
Lourey, Becky, 214–16
Lowery, Rev. Joseph, 267, 269
Lowry, Rich, 79–80
Lucas, Stanley, 127
Luce, Henry, 91
Lucy, Nick, 265
Lynch, Bill, 98

MacNeil, Robert, 285
Magna Carta, 18
Mai, Mukhtar, 301–3
Mandela, Nelson, 296
Mann, Fred, 103–5
Mansour, Ahmed, 193, 194, 195–98
Markey, Edward, 204
Marriage Savers, 80
Marty, Dick, 43
Matalin, Mary, 269
McCaffrey, Nadia, 214
McCain, John, 149, 151, 153–54, 162, 166, 259
McCarthy, Joseph, 104, 132
McClellan, Scott, 82, 85–86, 87–88, 119, 120, 149, 151–53, 247, 259
McCone, John, 93
McCotter, Lane, 177–79
McCoy, Alfred, 96–97, 154, 160, 162, 164, 165
McMahon, Jack, 172
McManus, Mike, 80
McNeil, J. E., 227
McSwane, David, 237–38
media
- Bush administration control of, see Bush administration
- corporate, 3, 8, 11, 12, 13, 77, 80, 90, 100, 218, 282
- correspondents’ dinner, 288–91
- disinformation published by, 9, 13, 71, 145–46
- dumbing down, 109
- embedded, 98–99, 190–91, 195, 196, 197, 300
- freedom of the press, 142
- grassroots, 13
- and Hurricane Katrina, 1–5
- hysteria promoted in, 145
- independent, 13–14, 100–112
- individuals targeted by, 133–38, 141–42
- information withheld by, 40–41, 43–45, 300–301
- journalism indistinguishable from
- propaganda in, 80–81, 129–30, 141
- Latin American censorship, 303–5
- laws governing propaganda in, 69–70, 76
- muckraking, 110, 112
- propaganda in, 6–8, 9, 63–72, 81, 101
- reality obscured in, 13, 110–12, 217–18
- responsibilities shirked by, 6, 8–10, 11, 12, 40–41, 112, 148, 196–97, 300–301
- and September 11 attacks, 10
- shills for hire, 78–81, 98–99, 129–30
- static on, 13
- truth as mission of, 108
- truth sacrificed for access, 12–14, 71, 112, 301
- voices of dissent, 292–307
Medicare, 62, 73
Mejia, Camilo, 228–30, 234
Miami Herald, 91
Military Families Speak Out, 223
Military Times, 224
Miller, Geoffrey, 163–64, 183
Miller, George, 80
Miller, Judith, 9, 71, 98–99
Mirsaidov, Jamal, 248–49
Mitchell, John, 47
Mokhiber, Russell, 84–86
Moreno, Luis, 122
Morocco, torture in, 21, 43
Morrell, Jim, 262
Morrow, Hugh, 92
Morrow, Jennifer, 73–74
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 216
Moyers, Bill, 103, 105, 106–12
Mueller, Robert, 27
Muhyideen al-Hajj, Sami, 193
Murray, Craig, 244–53
Musharraf, Pervez, 302
Mushtaq, Laith, 193, 194, 195, 197

Nader, Ralph, 206
Nairn, Allan, 116
Nassir, Akeel Shaker, 87
Nation, The, 51, 53, 106, 179
National Counterterrorism Center, 55
National Endowment for Democracy, 126, 129–30
National Review, 79–80, 223
Nazif, Ahmed, 31
NBC News, 56, 91
Neptune, Yvon, 118, 128
New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina in, 1–5, 13
New Republic, The, 43–44
Newsweek, 91, 94, 164
New Yorker, The, 32–33, 181
New York Times, 9
- CIA connections of, 91, 92–93, 95–96
- civil rights disregarded by, 142
- and fake news stories, 9–12, 76, 80
- and government spying, 10–11, 46, 58, 60, 61
- and Haiti, 124–25, 128, 129
- influence of, 138
- and Iraq stories, 9, 12, 71, 190–91
- news suppressed by, 10–12, 44, 136, 142
- and Wen Ho Lee, 133–36, 137–38, 141–42
Niederer, Sue, 265–66
Nimley, Horatio, 175
Nixon, Richard M., 10, 46, 91, 106
No Child Left Behind Act, 78, 239, 241–42
Noriega, Roger P., 117–18, 128
North, Don, 66
North American Wholesale Lumber Association, 51
Northrup, Ann, 284, 285
NPR (National Public Radio), 100, 102, 130
NSA (National Security Agency), 28
- warrantless eavesdropping by, 58–61

O’Brien, Miles, 123
O’Brien, Soledad, 3
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 60
O’Neill, Juliet, 28
O’Reilly, Bill, 212
Orwell, George, 292
Owens, William, 67

Pace, Peter, 289
Padilla, Jose, 146
Paige, Rod, 79
Paine, Thomas, 112
Paley, William S., 91, 93–94
Pappas, Thomas, 186
Paredes, Pablo, 56, 232–36, 238
Parker, James A., 139, 142–43
Parker, Michael, 276
Patterson, Perry, 264–65
Patterson, P. J., 121, 123
PBS (Public Broadcasting System), 13, 100, 103, 284–85
Pennsylvania prison system, 169–76
Pentagon
- Army and Air Force Hometown News, 75
- Army deserters reported by, 227
- database on activists in, 56–58
- database on students in, 239–43
- and embedded journalists, 98–99
- and Iraqi National Congress, 9
- propaganda disseminated by, 63–66, 67, 68–69
- spin from, 3, 8
- spying on citizens, 56–58
- Threat and Local Observation Notices (TALON), 57, 58
- torture promoted by, 159, 181, 185, 231
Philippe, Guy, 113
Pickens, T. Boone, 206
Pike, Otis, 94
Pinochet, Augusto, 28
Plame, Valerie, 142
Ponvert, Antonio, 180
Powell, Colin, 12, 33, 118, 120, 123, 127, 251
Préval, René, 130
Priest, Dana, 40
prisons
- abuse scandals in, 40–41, 155–61, 168–88
- civil rights ignored in, 11, 19, 26, 136, 146–47, 179–81, 229–30
- execution methods in, 170–71
- offshore, 6, 19, 25, 40–43
- racism in, 170, 171–73, 174, 175
- supermax, 171
- torture in, see Abu Graib; Guantánamo Bay; torture
psychological warfare, legal use of, 7–8
Pyes, Craig, 98

Quigley, Bill, 4–5

Raskin, Robin, 77
Rather, Dan, 284
Ratner, Michael, 27–28, 185–86
Raymond, Lee, 205
Read, Cathleen, 97
Red Cross, and prison abuses, 184
Redmond, Paul, 135
Reid, Harry, 81
Rendon Group, 64, 70
Reno, Janet, 138
Reporters Without Borders, 193
Republican Party
- campaign contributions to, 69
- and no-bid contracts, 69, 215
Reston, James, 44
Reuters, 91, 96
Rice, Condoleezza, 2, 38–39, 123, 213, 251
Richardson, Bill, 133, 138, 140, 142–43
Ridge, Tom, 27
Rieckhoff, Paul, 224
Rikabi, Ahmad, 67
Risen, James, 10, 11, 133, 134, 141
Rising-Moore, Carl, 226
Ritter, Scott, 216–17
Roberts, Patricia, 218
Robinson, Randall, 114, 120–21, 124
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 92
Rolling Stone, 91, 92, 94
Romero, Anthony, 182
Rosenberg, Julius, 135, 136
Ross, Thomas B., 96
Rotenberg, Mark, 241
Roth, Kenneth, 246–47
Rove, Karl, 88, 101, 107
Rowley, Coleen, 216
Roy, Arundhati, 305–7
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 27, 28
Rubin, Michael, 71
Rudd, Martha, 228
rule of law
- Bay of Pigs and, 43–45
- Bush as being above, 18–19, 30, 144, 288
- extraordinary rendition vs., 24–32, 34–35
- false arrest vs., 34–39
- false confessions vs., 33
- hidden prisons vs., 39–43
- international, 18, 25, 27
- Magna Carta, 18
- torture vs., 17, 19–24, 32–33
Rumsfeld, Donald H., 2, 58
- on control of media, 6, 7–8, 194
- and deaths in Iraq, 209–10, 215–16, 217
- and Haiti, 120, 123
- on prison abuses and torture, 42, 162–63, 164–65, 181, 183–84, 185–86, 231, 251
- on propaganda, 65, 69, 72, 159
Ryan, Karen, 73

Sachs, Jeffrey, 126
Safavian, David, 62
Saldivar, Beatrice, 219
Salem Witch Trials, 132, 148
Salon.com, 80
Sanchez, Ricardo, 164, 186, 231
Sané, Pierre, 169
Saturday Evening Post, 91, 92
Saudi Arabia, 199–200, 203, 206
Scarborough, Joe, 216–17
Scheer, Robert, 138, 142
Scherer, Michael, 164
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 43
Schmidt, Randall M., 165
Schorr, Daniel, 94
Schulz, William, 104
Schumer, Charles, 180
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), 66–68
Scripps Howard, 91
Seberg, Jean, 48
Senor, Dan, 66–67
Sentelle, David, 142
September 11 attacks, 10, 18, 88, 103, 266
Servin, Jacques, 272–77
Sheehan, Cindy, 199, 209–20, 234
Sierra Club, 202, 205
Silverstein, Mark, 50
60 Minutes (TV), 156, 223
Smith, Shepard, 3
Smith-Mundt Act, 76
Social Security, 62, 81, 257–58, 260–62
Solis, Gary, 146
Soviet KGB torture, 161–62
Soyster, Ed, 239
Sparks, Allister, 296–98
Spataro, Armando, 31
speech, freedom of, 47, 48, 50, 110
State Department, U.S.
- and propaganda, 65, 75
- and Venezuela, 130
Steele Foundation, 122, 123
Stevens, Ted, 202
Stewart, Jon, 286–88
Stewart, Terry, 129, 179–80
Stokes, Aaron, 51
Stone, I. F., 93
Strange, Jon, 279–82
Straw, Jack, 251
students, Army database on, 239–43
Suarez del Solar, Fernando, 234
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 91, 92
Sulzberger, Cy L., 93, 98
Supreme Court, U.S., 153, 154
surveillance, government, 48–61
SYColeman, 67
Syria
- Arar sent to, 20–24, 26, 27
- torture in, 17, 21–23, 26, 27, 31
Szulc, Tad, 44

TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notices), 57, 58
Talon News/GOPUSA, 81
Ten Commandments, 86
Tenet, George, 12, 38, 138, 185
Thomas, Helen, 82–84, 151–52
Thomas, Pierre, 141
Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, 54–55
Thompson, Tommy G., 73
3M Corporation, 267
Tice, Russell, 59, 60
Tillerson, Rex, 206
Time, 91
Tomlinson, Kenneth, 100–108
Tong, Tania, 264
Tonton Macoutes, 115
Toronto Star, 28
torture
- Army rules of engagement in, 156, 159
- false confessions extracted by, 22, 26, 28, 33, 251
- in Iraq, 7, 181, 182, 185–86, 229
- lack of valid results from, 156, 159–60
- outsourcing of, 31–32, 33, 39, 160
- U.S. government-sanctioned, 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 26, 30, 35–39, 147, 149–67, 229, 231, 247–50, 251–52
- war as result of, 33
Trager, David, 27
TransAfrica, 114
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), 73–74
Tribune Media Services, 79
Trudeau, Pierre, 232
Trulock, Notra III, 134, 135, 139–40
truth, as revolutionary act, 292
Truth Project, 57
Tutwiler, Margaret, 66–67
Tyrie, Andrew, 39

Union Carbide, 271–72, 274, 276–77
United for Peace and Justice, 57
United Nations (UN)
- Convention Against Torture, 246, 251
- human rights investigations by, 147
- Nuremberg principles of, 231
United Press International (UPI), 91, 96
United Press Syndicate, 79
United States, as police state, 60
universal jurisdiction, doctrine of, 185
Uribe, Alvaro, 211
USA Today, 58, 78
Uzbekistan, 244–56

Valent, Michael, 177–78
Venezuela, opposition groups in, 129–30
Veterans for Peace, 225
Vetesy, Eric P., 241
Vietnam Veterans of America, 225–26
Vietnam War, 18, 96, 228, 231, 242
Village Voice, 46
Vining, Tim, 54–55
Voice of America, 66, 76, 101, 102, 107
Vorster, John, 296
Vrooman, Robert, 140

Wade, John, 263
Walker, Alice, 293–96
Wall Street Journal, 25, 105, 137
war criminals, prosecution of, 185–86
war on terror
- accountability needed in, 218
- based on lies, 157, 159, 216, 219, 221, 222, 231, 243, 254
- civil liberties curbed in, 61
- dissent in U.S. military about, 222–43, 290
- failure in, 159–60, 223
- immorality of, 231–32, 234, 244, 305–7
- legality of, 231–32, 234
- positive news coverage of, 74–75
Warren, Jeremy, 234
Washington, Charles, 140
Washington Post, 107, 149, 203, 236, 260
- and CIA, 30, 34, 40
- and FBI documents, 46–47
- and government spying, 55, 61
- Iraq stories in, 8, 12, 88, 217
- lies and propaganda, 79, 88, 137, 145, 217
- news suppressed by, 12, 40–41, 43
- and Watergate, 91
Washington Times, 101, 144
Waters, Maxine, 113–14, 117, 118, 120–21, 124
Waxman, Henry, 257
WCIA, 75–76
Webster, Sharon Hay, 121
Weir, John, 284
Weise, Leslie, 257–60
Wen Ho Lee, 133–43, 148
White House Correspondents’ Association, 288–91
Wilkerson, Lawrence, 127–28
Williams, Armstrong, 78–79, 81
Williams, David, 87
Williams, Terry Tempest, 293
Wills, Mark, 2
Wilson, Harold C., 168–74, 186–88
Wines, Michael, 124
wiretaps
- in Bush administration, 6, 28
- in Nixon administration, 10
Wise, David, 96
Wisner, Frank, 90
witch-hunting, 132–48
- anticommunist, 104, 132
- Lee case, 133–43
- in Salem, Massachusetts, 132, 148
- Yee case, 143–48
Wolfowitz, Paul, 57
Wood, Sir Michael, 250
Woodruff, Judy, 279, 281
Woodward, Bob, 9, 91
Woolsey, James, 117
Wusawi, Nabeel, 70

Yarris, Nick, 175
Ybarra, Grisel, 170
Yee, James, 143–48
Yes Men, 272–77
Yoo, John, 166
Young, Alex, 257–60
Young, Malcolm, 172
Young, Tomas, 210–11, 220

Zabawa, Karolina, 266
Zaher, Ismail, 68
Zahn, Paula, 3
Zappala, Celeste, 209–10, 218
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 8
Zernike, Kate, 4
Zinni, Anthony, 223
Zwicker, Marie, 57