Yesterday The American Spectator published The Men Behind the Wire: Voices From the DC Jail, my latest article about the degrading and sadistic pre-trial detention of the January 6 Capitol Hill protesters by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. The title is based on The Men Behind the Wire, a song written and composed by Paddy McGuigan of the Barleycorn Irish folk group in the wake of Operation Demetrius, a 1971 British Army operation in Northern Ireland. It involved the mass arrest and imprisonment without trial of individuals suspected of involvement with the Irish Republican Army. The brutal manner […]