Review of Chain of Command

	Introduction by David Remnick	ix
I. TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB 1
1	A Guantánamo Problem	1
2	Photographs from a Prison	20
3	Crossing the Line	46
4	The Gray Zone	63
II. INTELLIGENCE FAILURE 73
1	How America's Spies Missed September 11th	73
2	Why the Government Didn't Know What it Knew	87
3	The Twentieth Man	103
III. THE OTHER WAR 121
1	Afghanistan's Secret Battles	121
2	The Getaway	128
3	A Power Base of Warlords	145
IV. THE IRAQ HAWKS 163
1	The Early Fight to Take On Saddam	163
2	Getting Closer	176
3	Richard Perle Goes to Lunch	189
V. WHO LIED TO WHOM? 203
1	March 2003: "These Documents... Are in Fact Not Authentic"	203
2	Into the Intelligence Stovepipe	207
3	Behind the "Mushroom Cloud"	225
VI. THE SECRETARY AND THE GENERALS 249
1	Driving to Baghdad	249
2	Manhunts	262
3	Targeting the Insurgency	273
VII. A MOST DANGEROUS FRIEND 287
1	Gambling on Musharraf	287
2	The Ultimate Black Market	302
3	Washington's Deal	311
VIII. THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER 9/11 323
1	Saudi Arabia: Corruption and Compromise	324
2	Syria: A Lost Opportunity	333
3	Iran: The Next Nuclear Power?	342
4	Israel, Turkey, and the Kurds	351
	Epilogue	361
	Acknowledgements	369
	Index	371

Probably because this book is adapted from a series of articles published in The New Yorker, each major heading in the above Table of Contents, which in the ordinary case would be called a Part, is more like a long chapter, and the chapter titles really designate subchapters.

CHAIN OF COMMAND: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Seymour M. Hersh David Remnick (Intro.) New York: HarperCollins, 2004				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-06-019591-5
ISBN 0-06-019591-6	416p.	HC	$25.95

CHAIN OF COMMAND

Reviewed 11/10/2005

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