TWO LI’L FOOTNOTES

As a follow-up to “Mr. Cheney’s Imperial Presidency,” the lead editorial in last Friday’s Times, may we add two li’l footnotes?
1) “This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere … were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.”
–Rudolf Hoess, SS commandant, Auschwitz, quoted in Testimony at Nuremberg, April 15, 1946
2) “You know, the Germans say you have a ‘fingertip feel’ — Fingerspitzengefühl — you know how a place smells, how it feels. A strategist who doesn’t have that innate sense about the area he’s working is going to get us in trouble.”
— Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, quoted in “American Viceroy,” Dec. 19, 2005, in The New Yorker. (See OUTRAGE: THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER.)
— Tireless Staff of Thousands

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