Innocent until proven guilty

Responding to the Libby indictment, both W and Cheney noted that, in our system, a person is innocent until proven guilty.

As a friend to this site put it:

One cannot help but think of the Gitmo and Abu Ghraib prisoners. And of course those scribbled Animal Farm qualifiers.

This hypocrisy would be stunning if it were not so damn predictable.

See what happens when you toss out the rules of civilized society? There may come a day when you expect those rules to protect you...