Freeance in action

From Harper's the hap-hap-happy story of what the "Shining City on the Hill" has become:

A Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer is seized by U.S. Forces and locked up for one year. The U.S. refuses to bring any charges. When American military spokesmen suggest their "suspicions" in interviews with the media, virtually all of them are exposed as false within a matter of weeks. No matter. He is still held. But surely this is some dark alternate universe, and not the one we inhabit, you think?

No. Bilal Hussein belonged to a team of Associated Press photographers who received the profession's highest award – the Pulitzer Prize – for their coverage of fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2005. One year ago today he was seized by U.S. Forces in Iraq. He has been held in continuous custody since that time. No formal charges have ever been brought against him, and the accusations raised by the Pentagon and the U.S. Command in Baghdad have changed continuously – sometimes changing even in the course of a single press cycle.

Is this the part where I put up the picture of Lincoln crying?