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Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:00 AM

The latest revelations of lawbreaking, torture and extremism

With each day that we acquiesce to the Bush administration's radicalism, the more it defines the national character of our country.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, October 4, 2007 07:05 AM

    Boiling the frog

    Glen: First, a small but fairly important editing correction. You wrote: "they have endorsed and legalized this behavior, investigated, outlawed or punished it." Obviously, you meant ". . . RATHER THAN investigated, outlawed, etc."

    You've articulated something that has worried me at least since the revelations from Abu Ghraib; when a scandal like that first comes to light, we are shocked, but then learn to accept it. We all know how you can boil a frog to death without causing him to save himself by jumping out of the water -- just increase the temperature gradually. I'm hoping that American democracy isn't yet a dead frog.

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