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Mark Danner, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote, The Road to Illegitimacy and, most recently, 'Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror.' He is Professor of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism at Bard College. His work can be found archived at Markdanner.com.
This article appears in the January 13 issue of The New York Review of Books.
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