“Is this really a nation of laws, though? There’s an old legal principle, ‘nemo iudex in causa sua,’ which translated into English means ‘no one should be the judge of their own cause.’ But in fact all the laws theoretically limiting the state’s power are interpreted by — wait for it — officials of the state. The commission of the actual military, intelligence and diplomatic crimes themselves, the classification of documents that evidence those crimes, and the setting of civil and criminal penalties for revealing wickedness in high places — all these things are done by officials of the same government.”
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