NYT: Measures Seek to Restrict Detainees' Access to Courts

I am at a loss to explain why the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" has found so little voice in the conversation about military tribunals and Guantanamo detainees. Instead, we hear about the impact of civil right abrogations on OUR innocents should they be captured abroad!

Did we learn nothing from the internment of Japanese (both US citizens and foreigners) in WWII? Are we so frightened of terrorists that we are willing to risk having innocents detained indefinitely, or forced to defend themselves against secret evidence and hearsay?

Measures Seek to Restrict Detainees' Access to Courts: "WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — Although the effort has been partly obscured by the highly publicized wrangling over military commissions for war crimes trials, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress are trying to use the same legislation to strip federal courts of their authority to review the detentions of almost all terrorism suspects."