Recommended Reading

Dahlia Lithwick on the meaning of yesterday's Supreme Court decision regarding the rights of those imprisoned at Gitmo. The whole argument against this decision reminds me of a similar argument that fails to persuade me with regard to the Death Penalty. It's that mindset of "If they were arrested, they must be guilty…and we have to make sure they don't have the opportunity to prove otherwise." I don't have a lot of faith that trials always convict the guilty and let the innocent go free…but I have even less faith that those who do the arresting and detaining can tell the difference.