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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:19 AM

    @ctlr

    Yeah, I'm not sure about that either (whether the public supports prosecutions or not). I don't know if there are any public polls on the matter.

    Of course, it doesn't really make a difference anyway, except for the likelihood of getting politicians behind it. For the legal arguments, it doesn't make a difference if the public supports it or not.

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