End Notes

1. William Safire, "You Are a Suspect," The New York Times (November 14, 2002).

2. Nat Hentoff, "We'll All Be Under Surveillance," The Village Voice (December 6, 2002). Sauropods were long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs, the best-known example of which is the Jurassic period's Brachiosaurus. The gargantuan animals (fifty feet tall, up to eighty-five feet long) were one of the species featured in Steven Spielberg's enormously popular movie, Jurassic Park.

3. Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887. Poindexter's conviction was entered in 1990, but was later overturned on the grounds that the basis of his conviction—his testimony to Congress—was given under a grant of immunity.