THE PRISON AND THE COURT
Tom Curry of MSNBC looks at whether the Abu Ghraib abuses might influence the Supreme Court's rulings on the legal status, and appeal rights, of prisoners in Guantanemo and U.S. citizens designated "enemy combatants."
The legal issues--some of which are fairly complext, at least to this non-lawyer--don't change with the revelations from Iraq, but the abuses there do point up why checks and transparency are essential to the maintenance of a free society.