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SAN FRANCISCO, Sep. 5, 2007 (KGO) - An exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will give you a glimpse into the world of espionage, featuring code words, secret prisons, and the like. To say that Berkeley's Trevor Paglen is obsessed with what others have called "the Dark Side of the War on Terror." is an understatement. Last year, he coauthored the book "Torture Taxi," a look at the CIA's "Extraordinary Rendition Program."

Earlier this week the Judge Advocate General of the Army, Major General Scott Black, issued a memorandum for the JAG Corps which has been secured by No Comment (readers who wish to view it can email me for a copy). Referencing President Bush’s July 20 Executive Order, which appears designed to authorize highly coercive, non-Geneva compliant interrogation techniques for use by the CIA