Want to explain why many people passionately oppose the Bush detainee proposals? This case helps explain why. A Canadian government inquiry into the US rendition of Maher Arar, an ordinary civilian, to Syria, where he was tortured for one year has concluded that, contrary to the information Canada gave the US, he was innocent. Oops, sorry about that. Tomorrow, the Diane Rehm show on NPR will feature a wrongly detained and since-released Guantanamo prisoner. Individualizing enemy combatants helps puncture the common assumption that we always have the right guy, which so many people are prone to assume, utterly without evidence and simply out of arrogance or carelessness. It's an understandable mistake. But the government has less excuse, and the consequences of its frequent mistakes in this regard are brutal and terrifying.

I know, I know, cry me a river, but at first glance anyway, this seems wrong to me. Shouldn't voters get accurate info, since Foley is not in fact the candidate?