Shssh! Don't Tell Americans How We Treat ?Enemy Combatants?

"Frightened after 9/11 over the prospect that 'the terrorists' were coming to get them, many Americans were either silent or supportive when U.S. officials assumed the most powerful dictatorial tool possible ? the power to arbitrarily take people into custody, torture them, and even execute them after a kangaroo proceeding. What never occurred to many Americans was that the military would have the authority to exercise this dictatorial power on them."