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''The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals'' investigates the Bush administration's use of torture against terrorist suspects in secret prisons around the world. Mayer names many individuals responsible for enabling the use of torture and covert detainment sites, including [[Dick Cheney]], David Addington, John Yoo, George Tenet, William Haynes, Alberto Gonzales, and James Mitchell.<ref name=jmds>Alan Brinkley, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Brinkley-t.html "Black Sites"], ''New York Times'', August 3, 2008, accessed November 24, 2019.</ref> Mayer also gives credit to many journalists for challenging and resisting the Bush regime's aims, including James Risen, Scott Shane, Son Suskind, and [[Seymoure Seymour Hersh]].<ref name=jmds></ref> Secret torture and secret detainment sites also faced opposition from within the government, but Mayer points out that few members of the State Department, the military, Congress, the C.I.A. or the F.B.I. "had the temerity to confront Cheney, who clearly was the true source of these policies."<ref name=jmds></ref>