Disappearing civil rights

Glenn Greenwald offers a lengthy description of a guest in America who has now been held for five years now -- without the right to see a lawyer, or get a trial. It's definitely worth a read. He concludes:

As always, the most extraordinary and jarring aspect of cases like this one is that these principles -- which were once the undebatable, immovable bedrock of our political system -- are now openly debated and actively disputed by our own government. By itself it is astonishing -- and highly revealing about where we are as a country -- that such precepts even need to be defended at all.

How are we supposed to be promoting democracy and civil rights around the world when we fight them at home?