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Mark Danner, a longtime New Yorker staff writer, is professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard College. His most recent book is "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror." This article appears in the June 9 issue of The New York Review of Books.
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