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Preemptive Reading

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a recent interview, defended the Administration’s policy of detaining potential terrorists, as a necessary component of the “War on Terror.” Apparently Administration policy wonks have been re-reading works by 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who advocated arresting people from groups with a tendency to commit crimes. Bentham also advocated torture as a means of securing “confessions.”

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