A writer at the Atlantic thinks we've been slowly losing our 5th Amendment rights:
What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn't work the way you'd think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with syphilis just to see what would happen if the disease went untreated. It seems unlikely that officers would coerce enlisted men into exposing themselves to debilitating nerve gas. Few expected that President Obama would preside over the persecution of an NSA whistle-blower, or presume the guilt of all military-aged males killed by U.S. drone strikes. But it all happened.
He's specifically referring to a provision in the reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act - now being considered in a conference committee - to allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens suspected of terrorism, without proof or due process. You can't defend yourself of the charges.
He points out that with the exception of one journalist at the New York Times, and a small handful of others - no one is covering this story.
