Fair Trials

I always thought that it was an american tradition that we have fair and open trials. Wasn't that one of the thing about which we complained that brought on the American Revolution. I know it's not always been done - we haven't always lived up to our ideal of a fair and open trial, but to see the national government blocking information as it has done in Guantanomo is egregious. But some of the information is coming out. A federal judge has ordered the pentagon to identify detainee abuse cases. We shouldn't have had to have a trial to get this done, but better to start working on doing the right thing later than to never do it at all.