American - Journalist | November 5, 1969 -
Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.
Benjamin Wittes
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The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.
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I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.
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Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.
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Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart.
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It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but a growing number are doing just that.
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
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Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.
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It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.'
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There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.
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You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.
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I defend non-criminal detention.
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