” ‘When history looks back, I want to be in the class of people who did the right thing, the sensible thing, and not necessarily the fashionable thing, the thing that met the aesthetic of the movement,’ [Undersecretary of Defense] Douglas Feith told Jeffrey Goldberg in the New Yorker in [May 9] 2005, referring to his controversial decisions in the Pentagon.”
– Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, Pages 128-129