“The most chilling aspect of Dave Eggers’s heartbreaking book, Zeitoun, is that the federal government’s fastest and most efficient response to Hurricane Katrina was the creation of a Guantánamo-like prison facility (in days!) in which 1,200 American citizens were summarily detained and denied any of their constitutional rights for months, a suspension of habeas corpus that reads like something out of a Kafka novel.”

Fareed Zakaria, What America Has Lost,

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/zakaria-why-america-overreacted-to-9-11.html