Persson, Goran, 130
Peru, 165
Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado), 232
Pfaff, William, 151
Philbin, Patrick E, 38
Philippi, battle of, 68
Philippines, 3, 19–20, 39, 74, 81, 84, 94, 104, 147–48, 207
Phillips, Wendell, 17
Phoenix Program, 40
Pincus, Walter, 209, 257
Pinochet, Augusto, 2–3, 19, 108–10
Pinter, Harold, 243
plausible deniability, 102–3
plebians, 62–64
Plutarch, 56, 67
Poindexter, John M., 103, 256
Poland, 52, 94, 112, 123–24, 143, 148–49, 155
Polanyi, Karl, 83
Polk, Milbry, 48
Polk, William R., 46
Pompey, 58–59, 64, 66
populares, 62–63, 66
pork-barrel legislation, 263, 265–66
Porter, Bernard, 72–73
Portugal, 19
Postol, Theodore C., 224
poverty, 7, 81–82, 84–85
Powell, Colin, 24, 73, 190, 199
Powers, Francis Gary, 226
Powers, Thomas, 91, 102–3, 135–36, 256
Praetorian Guard, 69, 95
Prats, Carlos, 108–9
Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, 21, 233
preemptive or preventive war, 8, 58–59, 91, 138, 142, 148–49, 158, 203, 251
Premier Executive Transport Services, 126, 127, 128, 130
Presentment Clause, 258
Presidential Emergency Operations Center, 34
presidential power (imperial presidency), 14–18, 20–21, 39–40, 244–68
CIA and, 90–97, 102–10, 120, 135–136
commander in chief status and, 62, 120, 244–46, 251–54
Congress and, 245–51, 259–68
FISA and, 254–56
habeas corpus and, 266-67
legislative and judicial power vs., 268–69
republic strained by, 60, 88–89, 279
torture memos and, 39–40, 251–54
veto and, 16, 59
war on terror and, 244–45
Presidential Records Act (1978), 247–48
