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...looking for remorse from Brady for his own crimes will not discover it in The Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...
Dershowitz has made headlines lately by saying he would support torture in some cases. Yesterday he said he personally believes torture is always wrong, but argued that incorproating torture into the legal system and requiring a judge’s warrant to carry it out would expose a practice that is currently widespread behind the scenes...
...moment. But, she says, "The problem with leaving the latest chapter of Yugoslav history practically blank is that many of my less responsible colleagues may fill the gap as they see fit." Unfortunately, Serbs may not yet be prepared for the painful scrutiny the events of the past decade warrant. Says Jelena Radojkovic, an analyst at the Belgrade Center for Human Rights: "What is needed is serious introspection into our ugly past." Maybe in the next edition of the history books...
What Dershowitz’s torture warrants would authorize is cringe-inducing. We get a hint in his op-ed: “The warrant would limit torture to nonlethal means, such as sterile needles being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain without endangering life...
...essence of civil libertarianism is to make sure everything is out in the open,” he says. Those words echo his op-ed, which states that “[e]ither police would torture below the radar screen of accountability, or the judge who issued the warrant would be accountable. Which would be more consistent with democratic values...