Occupation: Lawyer Birth: September 1, 1938
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected..
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 o….
Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda b….
What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of ….
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law..
Nobody wants justice..
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federa….
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place..
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideolog….
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech….
The Internet knows no national borders..
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….
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty..
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political..
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only ….
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life..
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor..
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker..
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent….
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the….
We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws have immunized internet car….