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Glenn:
You are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for bringing up Tamm's situation. In my gloomier moments during the Bush reign I wondered how long it will be before the Tamm type's are just deemed "enemy combatants" and made to disappear. If Daniel Ellsberg were to have done under Bush what he did under Nixon he would have been shipped off to Syria for questioning. Thankfully, Obama's nomination of Dawn Johnsen and Leon Panetta brings some hope.
Three things that most bothered me most during the Bush years: (1) the inability of our courts to act with expedition and when they eventually acted their pusillanimity; (2) Congress's total abdication of its responsibility, especially under the Democrats; and (3) the use by the FBI of those letters that threatened people with criminal punishment if they revealed its contents. The latter making all the recipients co-conspirators in the FBI's inanities.
