The Washington Post reports that Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohammed will be released to the custody of Great Britain. Morocco and the United States deny allegations that Mohammed was tortured in Morocco at the behest of the United States, but U.S. insistence that Great Britain seal all records related to torture and its admission that allegations of a dirty bomb plot were based on "false confessions" suggest otherwise.
When Eric Holder recently caused a stir by proclaiming us a "nation of cowards" for refusing to speak candidly about race, he was only half right. The real reason we are a nation of cowards is that we have let a fear-mongering administration herd us like sheep into abandoning our most basic Constitutional and humanitarian principles.