You May Remember the Administration of Hope and Change

Wikileaks suspect forced to sleep naked in the brig

Back in the old days, before the executive discovered his power to unilaterally order the murder of anyone on planet earth he decided was an enemy of the state, the presumption of law was that suspects were innocent till proven guilty and not subject to psychological degradation at the hands of a capricious state. But in the new improved America of Obama, we just go ahead and start punishing people now, since we pretty much already know what the verdict will be. Why should traitors and criminals have rights? They should have thought of that before they offended rich and powerful people.