On quiet days, we like to put up our feet and relax with the latest issue of The Weekly Standard—at least on those days when Nashville's globe-trotting ass-kicker Willy Stern provides the cover story. Stern was embedded last month with Task Force 435 in Afghanistan, and he used his access to tour field detention sites built to house and interrogate suspected insurgents. Stern challenges descriptions of such sites in the New York Times and Washington Post as "black jails," secret prisons where detainees are beaten, photographed naked and deprived of sleep. The secrecy part Stern confirms, but not much else:
