Email Author Nat Hentoff

2004 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• What Did Rumsfeld Know?

  published December 28, 2004

  U.S. officials who take part in torture, authorize it, or even close their eyes to it, can be prosecuted by courts anywhere in the world [under... More >>

• Telling it like it is

  published December 21, 2004

  Freedom of expression is an essential part of University life, but it does not include intimidation. Columbia University's Statement on... More >>

• Whose Academic Freedom?

  published December 14, 2004

  You can be as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist or anti-American [a professor] as you want, just as long as you engage in a discourse and you don't... More >>

• Cloud Over the Constitution

  published December 7, 2004

  The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential... More >>

• Torture and Death

  published November 30, 2004

  A front-page November 12 New York Times story by Elisabeth Bumiller and Neal Lewis went deeper into the president's choice for attorney... More >>

• Worse Than Ashcroft

  published November 23, 2004

  His sharp intellect and sound judgment have helped shape our policies on the war on terror, policies designed to protect the security of all... More >>

• John Ashcroft's Achievements

  published November 16, 2004

  He has made sure that the rights of Americans are respected and protected. —George W. Bush, on accepting the resignation of John... More >>

• Cuffing Bush and the FBI

  published November 9, 2004

  Bush's re-election ensures that he and John Ashcroft's designated successor, Alberto Gonzales, will press Congress hard to retain the Patriot Act... More >>

• Kofi Annan vs. Me

  published November 2, 2004

  This land stinks of fear and death. —Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, from Darfur, October 20 More >>

• GOP's Heart of Darkness

  published October 26, 2004

  The Republican leadership in the House—Speaker Dennis Hastert (Illinois), Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Texas), and James Sensenbrenner... More >>

• Torture as Foreign Policy

  published October 19, 2004

  Let me make very clear the position of my government and our country. We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will never... More >>

• Oil Fuels Genocide

  published October 12, 2004

  A woman and teenage girl who were raped and abducted by soldiers in western Darfur have claimed that the Sudanese army organized airlifts of... More >>

• Financing Mass Murder

  published October 5, 2004

  Sudan's oil reserves yield two billion dollars in annual revenue . . . —Samantha Power The New Yorker, August 30,... More >>

• The Most Evil Crime

  published September 21, 2004

  On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for... More >>

• Bob Barr vs. the FBI

  published September 14, 2004

  Recent history screams that we are fast becoming a nation of suspects, in which vocal dissent is a legal cause for monitoring.... More >>

• The Unknown Kerry

  published September 7, 2004

  I am absolutely telling you the God's honest truth about what happened and what took place over there [in Vietnam]. — John... More >>

• The Spinning Wheel

  published August 31, 2004

  I am very dismayed that it took a front-page story in The New York Times to get the ACLU to rescind the agreement [not to hire... More >>

• Disorder at the ACLU

  published August 24, 2004

  Sunlight is the best disinfectant. —Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis More >>

• 'Just Give Me My Son'

  published July 20, 2004

  [There] may be instances arising in the future where persons are wrongfully detained in places unknown to those who would apply for habeas... More >>

• The Ghost Prisoners

  published July 13, 2004

  More than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Put it this way, they're no... More >>

• Putting Bush in His Place

  published July 6, 2004

  We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the Nation's... More >>

• Disappearing Prisoners

  published June 29, 2004

  In a front-page article December 26, 2002, The Washington Post revealed that prisoners at a CIA interrogation center at Bagram Air Base in... More >>

• What Did Bush Know?

  published June 22, 2004

  [The] argument . . . is that the president, as commander in chief, is the law when it comes to the enemy. . . . [He is] unchecked by the courts... More >>

• Torture Trail

  published June 15, 2004

  The legal opinions that the Pentagon and the Justice Department seek to keep secret . . . lay out a shocking and immoral set of justifications... More >>

• Declarations of Independence

  published June 8, 2004

  He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to... More >>