From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

What's really happened in the War on Terror?

Hello again, I'm Arunalini, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look of the issues. Americans care about most.

Lawyers, military figures,

and Bush administration insiders believed that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques really

were torture. But Vice President Cheney insisted they were the only way to head off another

September 11th, despite warnings about prosecution for war crimes. A new book also reports that

dissenters lost their jobs, even as

enhanced interrogation produced false information that derailed the war on terror. On To the Point,

The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, will there be a call to accountability? On reporter's notebook later on,

we'll talk about confidence in the economy. First, here's the news.

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio

International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and

Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. Hello again. I'm on me back with To the Point. A new book called The Dark Side compiles evidence that enhanced interrogation has made America more vulnerable rather than safer.

On To the Point, is it torture?

Did those who ordered it commit war crimes?

Was it counterproductive to the war on terror and contradictory of basic American values?

On reporter's notebook, facts and perceptions about the economy.

First, this news update.

On top of concerns about the mortgage market and banking, there's a new reason to worry.

Today, it's reported that inflation rose last month at the fastest rate since Katrina.

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