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Recent revelations about the actions of the Bush Administration in the war on terror have given it the image of a cross between Big Brother and Torquemada. Most recently comes the story of the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepting and monitoring communications from overseas to al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. This followed reports of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used...
...quibble a bit, but he was satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin...
...Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that had renounced the faith, but Carroll portrays Hitler as the heir to such church-sanctioned haters as St. John Chrysostom and Torquemada. "By tapping into a deep, ever-fresh reservoir of Christian hatred of Jews," he writes, the German dictator made the Catholic Church "an accomplice in history's worst crime...
...Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf. Both were reporters on the scene: Schmidt broke the Lewinsky story in the Washington Post, and Weisskopf followed its every twist for TIME. Starr is at the center of their narrative, a more complicated figure--not quite sympathetic, but more comprehensible--than the Torquemada caricature of Clintonite nightmares...
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigations go on and on [NATION, May 11]. There are few things more frightening than a self-righteous, self-important "guardian" of public morals and minds like Starr, a tin-pot Torquemada and spiritual heir to Himmler. JENNIFER JOHNSTON SMITH Houston...