Nice piece by Walter Cronkite in the Denver Post recently.

Here's an extract:

"Now, of course, I am not accusing the attorney general of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases).
But one does get the sense these days that [Tomas de Torquemada's] spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice."

Truly worrying.