Tonight on Bill Moyers' Journal: Torture on Trial....featuring Jane Mayer

[marmar]

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07252008/profile.html


July 25, 2008

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL goes inside last week's hearings on torture in Congress and gets perspective from journalist Jane Mayer on the debate over whether the U.S. sanctioned torture to prosecute the war on terror. Mayer's recent book, THE DARK SIDE: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE WAR ON TERROR TURNED INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS, documents the war on terror and the struggle over whether the president should have limitless power to wage it.

Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for THE NEW YORKER and the coauthor of two bestselling books, LANDSLIDE and STRANGE JUSTICE. Based in Washington, D.C., she writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon's secret torture policy, how the United States outsources torture (rendition), the prison at Guantñnamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, Karl Rove, and the television show "24."

Before joining THE NEW YORKER, Mayer was for twelve years a reporter at the WALL STREET JOURNAL. In 1984, she became the Journal's first female White House correspondent. She was also a war correspondent and a foreign correspondent for the paper. Among other stories, she covered the bombing of the American barracks in Beruit, the Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the final days of Communism in the Soviet Union. She was nominated twice by the JOURNAL for a Pulitzer Prize in the feature-writing category.

Before joining the JOURNAL, in 1982 Mayer worked as a metropolitan reporter for the WASHINGTON STAR. She began her career in journalism as a stringer for TIME magazine while still a student in college. She has also written for a number of other publications, including the WASHINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, and the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. In addition to THE DARK SIDE, Mayer is the co-author of two other books. STRANGE JUSTICE, written with Jill Abramson, was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for nonfiction. Her first book, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1984-1988, co-authored by Doyle McManus, was a best-selling account of the Reagan White House's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.

[Bozita]

1. She was interviewed by Amy Goodman for 45 min on 'Democracy Now!' -- link to video

This may help tide you over until Moyers' show tonight.

http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/7/18

The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush administration last year that the CIA’s treatment of prisoners categorically constituted torture and could make Bush administration officials who approved the torture methods guilty of war crimes. Mayer also reveals that the Bush administration ignored warnings from the CIA six years ago that up to a third of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake.

[marmar]

3. THX for the link, Bozita....

n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Kick, because...

every thread I've seen on Mayer, beginning with my own about her interview on Fresh Air a week or two ago, has sunk like a big ol' rock.

Everybody's happily yakking about Gitmo, torture, the war, and all this good stuff, but here's a woman who knows about it, and nobody seems to give a shit.

Go figure.

[libnnc]

4. kick to remind myself

thanks

:kick:

[Redbear]

5. Her interview with Letterman was great.

She delves deep into the issues of having a national policy of cruelty for the first time in history.