Chain of Command
Subtitle: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: July 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060955373
Subjects: Politics/International Relations; United States; Political Science; Contemporary Politics; Intelligence Operations; Politics / Current Events; Prisoners of war; Prisoners and prisons, American; Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations; Government - U.S. Government; Military - Iraq War (2003-); Political Science / Government / International; Government - International; Abuse of; Atrocities; Iraq War, 2003-
First sentence: In the late summer of 2002, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst made a quiet visit to the detention center at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where an estimated six hundred prisoners were being held, many, at first, in steel-mesh cages that provided little protection from the brutally hot sun.