Editing Mark Danner (section)

===Torture and Abu Ghraib===
Beginning in the spring of 2004, he wrote a series of essays for ''The New York Review of Books'' on the emerging torture scandal that came to be known as [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|Abu Ghraib]]. In October 2004, he collected these essays and gathered them, together with a series of government documents and reports, into his book, ''Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror''.

In March 2009, Danner published an essay in ''The New York Review'', "US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites", which revealed the contents of a secret [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] report based on testimony from "high-value detainees" in the "War on Terror," who had been captured, held, and interrogated at secret US prisons—the so-called "black sites". Shortly thereafter, he published a second essay, "The Red Cross Report: What it Means" and released the full text of the report on ''The New York Review'' website. Weeks later, President Obama ordered released four Justice Department memos in which the Bush administration purported "to legalize torture." Senior Obama officials Rahm Emanuel and [[David Axelrod (political consultant)|David Axelrod]] claimed publicly that the memos' release was prompted by publication of the Red Cross Report.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0409/Emanuel_addresses_torture_memos.html "Emanuel Addresses Torture Memos] Politico.com</ref>