Mark Danner on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, June 22nd 2014.

Mark Danner, who is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is the author of “The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History” and “Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror” joins us to discuss this anomaly and his recent article at The New York Review of Books “Cheney: The More Ruthless the Better”.

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