Brings to mind the story of military professional and former Abu Ghraib prison commander, Brig General Janice Karpinski, who took the fall for Rumsfeld's torture mandate and had an "epiphany" after being demoted and force to retire. Add to this, the families of those Halliburton, KBR, CACI and Blackwater contract employees in Iraq who were pro-war -- until their loved ones came back missing a limb or dead. Now we have a US mercenary who gets a nasty taste of his own medicine and has a wake-up call. Expect to see more of this as the war continues.

The important news item here is that the civil liberties groups were right - the suspension of habeus corpus was designed not only to be used against non-citizens, but against anybody the US government decides is an 'enemy combatant'- including citizens. High on this list are whistleblowers within their own ranks.

Thanks for this article.