Camp Kirsanow

Submitted by Rick Perlstein on August 7, 2007 - 3:50pm.

I haven't seen this getting much attention. It should. On July 19, [ed.: July 19, 2002, I neglected to note originally] a man named Peter Kirsanow said that if Arabs staged another terrorist attack on American soil, the doors might swing open to new American concentration camps.

And who is Peter Kirsanow? A shrieking talk radio maniac? One of those right-wing bloggers who can't host comments on his site because the violent fantasies therein attract too much attention from the FBI?

No, he is a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. A Bush appointee.