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Benjamin Wittes

I defend non-criminal detention.

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Benjamin Wittes

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA’s interrogations in the years after September 11.

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Benjamin Wittes

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can’t be done.

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Benjamin Wittes

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

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Benjamin Wittes

There’s all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

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Benjamin Wittes

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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Benjamin Wittes

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.

– Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

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.

– Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

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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Benjamin Wittes

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.’

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Benjamin Wittes

Drosnin’s ‘The Bible Code’ would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

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Benjamin Wittes

I’m a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

– Benjamin Wittes

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