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By now, everyone is familiar with Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil"

Like many I was disposed to view some of the most abhorrent abuses of the Bush administration as being a classic example of the type. But this new report from Jan Crawford Greenberg makes me think that maybe we're just dealing a bunch of sadistic maniacs.

Chris Hayes

April 10, 2008

By now, everyone is familiar with Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil”

Like many I was disposed to view some of the most abhorrent abuses of the Bush administration as being a classic example of the type. But this new report from Jan Crawford Greenberg makes me think that maybe we’re just dealing a bunch of sadistic maniacs.

Chris HayesTwitterChris Hayes is the Editor-at-Large of The Nation and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC.


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