From Le Monde diplomatique, Scheherazade in the White House: How George Bush’s wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq. After Fair Game: Laura Rozen on the story Valerie Plame couldn't tell. Challenging Cheney: A National Archives official reveals what the veep wanted to keep classified—and how he tried to challenge the rules. Studying the inhumanities: An interview with Jameel Jaffer, co-editor of Administration of Torture: A Documentary History from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. What happens at a CIA "black site"?: One victim shares his experience with the CIA's torture tactics. A review of Eight O'clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay by Clive Stafford Smith.
