By Steve Clemons

JANE MAYER, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, has an important book that will officially hit the stands on Monday, 14 July. I have signed a contract forbidding me to share any of the blockbuster findings and reporting that she has done on the internal Bush administration debates
about torture policy and the other post-9/11 war decisions, but I can say that she has done the nation a great service by further illuminating the important and often defining roles that Vice President Cheney and his staff have played in these policies. In particular, Mayer takes her groundbreaking profile of David Addington -- Cheney's current chief of staff and the man David Ignatius referred to as "Cheney's Cheney" -- an order of magnitude higher.

The book is titled, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. We will have copies for sale on Tuesday morning.

I am sending this announcement to many around the world and the US who do not live in Washington. IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND OR DO NOT LIVE NEAR WASHINGTON, YOU ARE INVITED TO WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST OF THIS MEETING AT WWW.THEWASHINGTONNOTE.COM. IT WILL AIR FROM 9:30 AM ­ 11:00 AM EST. WE CAN
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All the best,
Steve Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com

The New America Foundation/American Strategy Program cordially invites you and your colleagues to a special morning conversation and book release

terror, torture and the "dark side" in post 9-11 BushLand:
A CONVERSATION WITH NEW YORKER CORRESPONDENT JANE MAYER ON HER JUST RELEASED BOOK

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2008
9:30 am ­ 11:00 am (please note special timing of this event)

New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC (outside Q Street Exit of Dupont Metro Station)

JANE MAYER
Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
Author, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into
a War on American Ideals
Buy at Amazon.

host and moderator
STEVEN CLEMONS
DIRECTOR, AMERICAN STRATEGY PROGRAM, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com

RSVP TO CLEMONS@NEWAMERICA.NET OR 202-986-4901

This meeting with JANE MAYER and STEVE CLEMONS will stream LIVE at
www.TheWashingtonNote.com and also at the events web page at
www.NewAmerica.net