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book might have become a
*   bestseller. Instead it was published just as the Gulf War allowed us to
*   resume business as usual, and went virtually unnoticed. 

#   The Baltimore Sun, January 27 1997
#   
#   Amnesty International is calling for a Congressional investigation into
#   a CIA torture manual they came into possession of "Counterintelligence
#   Interrogation."
#   
#   The comprehensive manual even includes "medical, chemical or electrical"
#   tips for torturers such as "If a new safe house is to be used, the
#   electric current should be known in advance so that transformers or
#   other modifying devices will be on hand if needed."

:   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
:   
:   Without informing anyone outside the Justice Department, and only a very
:   few within, the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI Director agreed upon a
:   plan by which the president could suspend many of the key safeguards of
:   the Constitution.
:   
:   Under the top-secret agreement, code-named "Security Portfolio," the FBI
:   was authorized, in the event of an ill-defined emergency, to summarily
:   arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in national security detention
:   camps.
:   
:   A watch list of those who should be detained---along with detailed
:   information about what they looked like, where they lived and their
:   place of employment---was developed by the FBI.
:   
:   The decision as to who was placed on the watch list was left to the
:   FBI and included many whose only crime was to openly criticize some
:   aspect of American life.
:   
:   The detention plan did not require the FBI to obtain individual arrest
: