There Is A Paranoid Streak

If Torture Is Going To Be Administered As A Last Resort In The Ticking-bomb Case, To Save Enormous Numbers Of Lives, It Ought To Be Done Openly, With Accountability, With Approval By The President Of The United States Or By A Supreme Court Justice.

I'm Worried About Privacy Because Of The Young People Who Don't Give A Damn About Their Privacy, Who Are Prepared To Put Their Entire Private Lives Online. They Put Stuff On Facebook That 15 Years From Now Will Prevent Them From Getting The Jobs They Want. They Don't Understand That They Are Mortgaging Their Future For A Quick Laugh From A Friend.

If You're A Prosecutor, And You Believe The Defendant Is Guilty, You Only Talk About Ultimate Truth, But Not Intermediate Truth. If You're The Defense Attorney, You Care Deeply About Intermediate Truth, But You Tend To Neglect Ultimate Truth.

In The Pentagon Papers Case, The Government Asserted In The Supreme Court That The Publication Of The Material Was A Threat To National Security. It Turned Out It Was Not A Threat To U.s. Security. But Even If It Had Been, That Doesn't Mean That It Couldn't Be Published.

The Judge Also Has A Truth He Wants To Hide: He Often Hasn't Been Completely Candid In Describing The Facts Or The Law.