The Lies Of Tony Snow

Yes, they're lies - repeated and knowing recitation of an untruth:

Are you saying that detaining people who are plucked off the battlefields is an assault on democracy? Are you kidding me? You’re talking about the people who were responsible for supporting the Taliban, somehow detaining them is an assault on democracy?

Scott Horton reminds Snow of reality:

The battlefield that Al-Marri was "plucked off of" was an apartment complex in West Peoria, Illinois, where he had been living, under constant observation, for many months.

The battlefield is your living room. And King George can enter, arrest, and torture at any time. This, one recalls, is what the first Americans defined themselves as opposed to. Two centuries from freedom to despotism.