Introduction
Flawed mandates : early years of the FBI and CIA
Revelations of the Church Committee
Reform and resistance : consequences of the Church Committee
Our torture policy
"Extraordinary rendition" and the wages of hypocricy
Bringing war back home
Kings and presidents
The king's counsel
Conclusion : a republic, if you can keep it.
Unchecked and unbalanced : presidential power in a time of terror by Frederick A. O. Schwarz. ISBN 9781595581174. Published by New Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.