Guant namo and the Abuse of Presidential Power or The Dark Side of Camelot

Guantбnamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power

Author: Joseph Margulies

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Table of Contents:

1	"An atmosphere of dependency and trust"	17
2	"Debility, dependence, and dread"	29
3	"The system that has been developed"	44
4	"You are now the property of the U.S. Marine Corps"	63
5	Debating torture	85
6	"The more subtle kind of torment"	110
7	"War is not a blank check"	131
8	A pattern of deceit	157
9	"Finding someone else to do your dirty work"	182
10	What if he's a shepherd?	203
11	Asking why	221
12	"Just shut it down and then plow it under"	234

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The Dark Side of Camelot

Author: Seymour M Hersh

Investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh shows us a John F. Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behavior long before he entered the White House. His father, Joe, set the pattern with an arrogance and cunning that have never been fully appreciated: Kennedys could do exactly what they wanted, and could evade any charge brought against them. Kennedys wrote their own moral code. And Kennedys trusted only Kennedys. Jack appointed his brother Bobby keeper of the secrets—the family debt to organized crime, the real state of Jack's health, the sources of his election victories, the plots to murder foreign leaders, and the president's intentions in Vietnam. The brothers prided themselves on another trait inherited from their father—a voracious appetite for women—and indulged it with a daily abandon deeply disturbing to the Secret Service agents who witnessed it. These men speak for the first time about their amazement at what they saw and the powerlessness they felt to protect the leader of their country.

Columbia Journalism Review - Steve Weinberg

Hersh's relentless reporting led to a high level of factual accuracy in some of the book's high-risk segments, and for me, that level of accuracy provided confidence in the book's larger judgments.

Gore Vidal

Hersh is an old-style muckraker. The fact that he's found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge is hardly his fault. -- The New Yorker

Steve Weinberg

Hersh's relentless reporting led to a high level of factual accuracy in some of the book's high-risk segments, and for me, that level of accuracy provided confidence in the book's larger judgments. -- Columbia Journalism Review