By Paul Greenberg"This is certainly is not the American Way — not any more, anyway. The days of Wild Bill Donovan and the old OSS of World War II are now history in more ways than one:
- One of the first things our new, enlightened administration did was announce that CIA agents who engaged in less than orthodox methods to interrogate suspects would be candidates not for promotion but prosecution.
- Christmas Day, a suspect apprehended by passengers aboard an American airliner before he could blow it out of the sky was questioned for a total of 50 minutes. Then, at the attorney general's direction, given his Miranda warning and provided legal counsel.
- Earlier in this administration, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, was going to be given a civil trial in downtown New York City, complete with all rights and privileges appertaining thereto. Then it dawned even on this administration that violations of the laws of war might better be tried before military courts.
- The prison at Guantanamo Bay, specifically constructed to hold the most dangerous of terrorists, is to be closed, its occupants shifted to the American mainland, or maybe released on their word of supposed honor. Already some have resurfaced — attacking American troops in Afghanistan. Again."
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