@gleick

So, if some halfwit worries that maybe you are thinking of violating some rule of civil law, possibly, in the future, somehow, then it's okay to throw you in prison without an attorney and with no chance to contact your family or friends? And to start billing American taxpayers at an exorbitant rate for your confinement ?

Is this different in any significant way from Russia and Iran grabbing innocent foreign visitors to use them as currency for "diplomatic exchanges"?