Why The Dreyfus Affair Matters, By Louis Begley
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Even more pertinent is the parallel between the journalists and lawyers who "took a stand against [the] torture and kangaroo courts" of the Bush administration and Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, the French officer who risked his career in an investigation of the Dreyfus case. Begley concludes "it is not yet possible to tell... the damage done to America by the crimes and abuses of the Bush administration."
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