A Senate Intelligence Committee report, which began to pull back the curtain on the CIA's use of torture in secret prisons known as "black sites," compelled the government to change its rules about keeping former CIA prisoners' memories secret.
It's a badge of French's talent that the two books featuring the Mackeys can be read with enjoyment separately or non-chronologically, but regular readers gain an extra level from the backstories, as, crucially, do the fictional figures, who become layered with memories, secrets and sensitivities in the way that real people are.
She initially moved there to produce and star in the television movie "Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden".
Because of this, it feels like a safe space where you can make whatever dumb joke you want, or to delve a bit deeper into a painful memory or secret fear.
Like all the dead scams strewn across Abbie Hoffman's 1960s guerrilla manual Steal This Book!, the Ameripass has now faded away to just a memory, a secret password largely unknown that might, at most, inspire a twinkle of illicit nostalgia for bygone youthful indiscretion.
He says the ceramics he is making now are inevitably influenced by writing the book – memory and secrets and occlusion.
To approach his free-standing piece Untitled (c.1954) in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is to be transfixed by a flood of memories, allusions, secret stories and deep feelings.
It moves with bold, imaginative daring and a troubled intensity between men at war and women with their children, between Scotland and Afghanistan, between photography and fiction, and between memory and secrets.
This picture by Kevin Lamarque, of Reuters, leapt out at me from among the thousands that arrive on the news wires each day, as it conjured up memories of secret agents in the movies or those 1970s spy thrillers on TV.
Our phones are material extensions of ourselves, repositories for memories and secrets.
