Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib / Seymour M. Hersh.

"Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.

Maps on end papers.

Includes index.

pt. 1. Torture at Abu-Ghraib. A Guantánamo problem -- Photographs from a prison -- Crossing the line -- The gray zone -- part 2. Intelligence failure. How America's spies missed September 11th -- Why the government didn't know what it knew -- The twentieth man -- part 3. The other war. Afghanistan's secret battles -- The getaway -- A power base of warlords -- part 4. The Iraq hawks. The early fight to take on Saddam -- Getting closer -- Richard Perle goes to lunch -- part 5. Who lied to whom? March 2003, "These documents ... are in fact not authentic" -- Into the intelligence stovepipe -- Behind the "mushroom cloud" -- part 6. The secretary and the generals. The battle for Baghdad -- Manhunts -- Targeting the insurgency -- part 7. A most dangerous friend. Gambling on Musharraf -- The ultimate black market -- Washington's deal -- part 8. The Middle East after 9/11. Saudi Arabia: corruption and compromise -- Syria: a lost opportunity -- Iran: the next nuclear power? -- Israel, Turkey, and the Kurds.