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...dodgy response at best, but one invested with a larger truth. For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are "fruit," and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legality-spying on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders...
...released by the National Archives, Alito--at the time a lawyer with the Reagan Administration Justice Department--argued that government officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps can be immune from lawsuits. The case in question arose in 1970, when then Attorney General John Mitchell allowed the FBI to wiretap Vietnam War protesters suspected of plotting to kidnap National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger...
...ambassador to the U.N., former mayor of Atlanta and current chairman of the consulting group Goodworks International I think that there was a kind of frustration on Martin's part that maybe he had not done enough?crazy as it seems?about everything: about poverty and about ending the Vietnam War. He felt that we were just beginning. He always saw it as a lifelong struggle, and we had been at it for 10 years hardly...
...built upon a lie, built upon imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, an al-Qaeda connection. He'd focus on that. Second, of course, he'd protest vehemently that we've gone from lying about the war to spying on people protesting the war. He was on the anti-Vietnam war list. He would be protesting this violation of constitutional rights. Third, his last mission was to build a working poor people's campaign, declaring that there should be a job and income for every American, a floor beneath which no American would fall. So I'm convinced that today...
...very poignant about an era of two different choices about how you foster democracy but starting off with such hope and promise. I didn't realize when I started the book, how closely the two things were going to parallel, but essentially Johnson's presidency is destroyed over Vietnam, and to have him essentially give up and King killed in the same week, you know, I think history itself is telling us these are parallel stories. You put these two stories together and try to examine Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement as models for America, where...