In a narrative that reads like a spy thriller, Mackey reveals how he and his fellow interrogators managed to crack even the hardest cases as well as the mis- takes that were made: the blown interrogations, abuses against prisoners, and the failures of American intelligence in the war against terror. From glimpses into classrooms of the U.S. government's secret inter- rogation school to the batt…
In a country where talk of conspiracies is often a national pastime, the deepest, sometimes darkest, secrets have long been held by Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency (Badan Intelijen Negara, or BIN). Whether targeting communist diplomats, foreign terrorists, or domestic dissidents, BIN and its precursor organizations have been the covert spearhead of the nation's security policy. Here, for …