I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
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