Benjamin Wittes Quotes

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Benjamin Wittes

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 5, 1969

I defend non-criminal detention.

Benjamin Wittes

I've got no problem with drone strikes.

Benjamin Wittes

I'm positively enthusiastic about American surveillance policies.

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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

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Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

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Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.

Benjamin Wittes