The Pentagon thinks it has a right to mandate that secrets that are no longer secret be treated as secrets by reporters covering military trials at Guantánamo. And a veteran Miami Herald reporter has been barred from Gitmo for republishing infomation already in the public domain. Has the Pentagon gone to far?

“A guy, we can’t tell you who, told us something, we can’t tell you what, that makes us think you’re a terrorist, but we can’t tell you why.” Our nation is defined, not by the attacks upon us, but our response.

I watched this thought-provoking movie at a special showing at the French Embassy in Washington last night. The 30-minute film depicts the process by which the United States determined if detainees at Guantánamo were properly classified as unlawful enemy combatants. The movie’s biggest virtue: It plays it right down the middle and leaves it for you to decide what the U.S. response should be to an enemy who doesn’t play by our rules, and doesn’t want the war to ever end.