Absolutely. That is what comes across so briliantly in the film. Sadism. When I look through Republican blogs I often see a common mentality.

America" in the mood for "revenge" post 9/11 genuinely seems to be "they" attacked "us" so we round "them" up, regardless of guilt or innocence.

I don't think it is just a missing "presumption of innocence". I can totally understand that there must have been a huge yearning in the US Military for the Tipton 3 to be linked to Al-Quaida.

Layers of removal from a situation seem to make accusations of terrorism firmer regardless of whether they are true or not.

I got this looking into the Hamza case. The closer I got to the people who knew him the best the more disturbingly mellow they seemed to be and the more hollow the waves of anti-Hamza stuff in the press seemed to be."