The movie rights will be worth a real fortune

This is really extraordinary stuff and i keep thinking it really can't all be true,...that I'm being silly and gullible and will somehow ultimately be embarrassed.

Think Progress,

Last night on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book [The Dark Side by Jane Mayer], she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay because they determined it to be “borderline torture.” Moyers then asked, “Who were some of the other conservative heroes, as you call them, in your book?”

Mayer remembered one top Justice Department lawyer and “very conservative member of this administration” who said that after participating in White House meetings authorizing torture, he believed that “lunatics had taken over the country.”

Mayer said two other top DOJ lawyers had to develop a system of speaking codes because they feared they were being wiretapped while others described an “atmosphere of intimidation,” mainly from Vice President Dick Cheney...

You know you really have 'gone round the bend' when John Ashcroft thinks you're a 'lunatic'.

I've not read Mayer's book but it appears the most extraordinary stuff is anonymously sourced which is problematic if sometimes unavoidable. Here is the Times book review.