Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confesses that he planned 9/11 and killed Daniel Pearl. Or so we are told:

The military barred reporters or other independent observers from the sessions for the 14 operatives and is limiting the information it provides about them, arguing that it wants to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information.

With no one there to verify any of what is happening in these hearings, we really don't know for sure what is being said or done. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is probably just as guilty as the government says he is. But we have been through too much to just have the Bush administration say, yet again, just trust us. If they want us to trust them, then they shouldn't have played so fast and loose with the truth. For all we know, every word in the transcript they released of this hearing could be made up, which is what those outside the U.S. are going to think.

Torture. Secret tribunals. Government listening to phone calls without warrants. We're becoming more like the old Soviet Union every day.