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Benjamin Wittes
Benjamin Wittes
American Journalist
Born: Nov 5, 1969
Great Intelligence Justice Law People Power
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
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
Government Problem Face Believe Defense Positions Correctness Lawyers Development Like Private Whose
The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda. Benjamin Wittes
War Will Our Response Construct Concept Govern Continuing Legally Politically Psychologically Al Al-Qaeda
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the 'King James Bible.' Benjamin Wittes
Bible Mind Will King Example Long Believe String Hidden William Tricks Find Seem Somehow Shakespeare Countless Like For Example Wrote Demonstrate Text Any James Wants Meaning Convincing Special Letters
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. Benjamin Wittes
God Time Religion Science Increasingly Once Nineteenth Philosophy Nineteenth Century Through Particularly Fairly Another Became Exercise Disciplines Scientific Scientific Method Method Were Existence Intellectual Refined Proving Grew Apart Commonplace Century Theology Largely
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level. Benjamin Wittes
Needs Control Top Way System Membership Detect Seeks Unstable Over Cult Opposite Providing Malleable Quickest Way Sniff Times Infinitely Anyone Theological Theology Level Coherent Below
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.' Benjamin Wittes
Post Lawyer Jim Writer Written Like Editorial Friend Going Just Former Used Who Even Washington Washington Post Now Tombstone
Secret courts require great faith that the Justice Department - and future Justice Departments - will act with integrity. Benjamin Wittes
Future Faith Great Justice Integrity Will Secret Great Faith Courts Department Departments Justice Department Require Act
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11. Benjamin Wittes
Death Justice Legal Culture People Matter Oppose Crimes Relatively Penalty System About Seems Absurd Execute Executing Policy Operational Death Penalty Get Quite Which While Sept Reserve Street Routine Right
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