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...fast, says Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, who had a large part in shaping the USA Patriot Act. "Security is the means by which we achieve our fundamental freedoms." Dinh rejects the idea that the Justice Department is doing a balancing act because, he says, the department is making sure that no civil liberties are violated. "It is especially in this war, where our enemies are attacking the very foundations of our liberties," he says, "that we must be particularly vigilant about protecting those liberties...
...Justice Department believes that librarians are overreacting. "I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding and a sense of unjustified hysteria," says Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, who helped craft the act. Dinh says authorities have always been able to obtain subpoenas to search library records. For instance, a federal grand jury authorized searches in the mid-1990s to learn who had checked out books mentioned in the Unabomber's manifesto. Those subpoenas, however, were issued after officials provided a reasonable suspicion that the books were related to a committed crime...
VIETNAM Decks containing only the ace of spades were passed out to U.S. troops. They would display a card on their helmets to scare away the Viet Cong, who were thought to be superstitious about the card because fortune tellers considered it a harbinger of suffering and death. In this year's Iraqi deck, the ace of spades is--who else? Saddam Hussein...
...incalculable numbers of Iraqi soldiers have died in air bombardments. Even if taking a formal census of the Iraqi dead were possible, it's doubtful the U.S. military would try. Americans got out of the business of counting enemy losses after the Vietnam War. Then, tallying North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties became something of a bureaucratic fetish, and the ludicrous methods often used--counting five body parts as five "kills," for example--destroyed U.S. credibility. The Pentagon has never released a formal estimate of how many Iraqis died in the first Gulf War in 1991. During...
Just like their predecessors who fought at Iwo Jima in 1945, landed ashore at Inchon in 1950, and repelled the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive in 1968, the American troops currently surging toward Baghdad represent the very best of their generation. Through their heroism, these soldiers are building upon a legacy that is unlike any other in the history of warfare. They are, as Sir Isaac Newton might have said, “standing on the shoulders of giants.” Those giants are the brave men and women who have worn a uniform and struggled...