Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees, describes the government's position on Bagram and Guantánamo as a distinction without a difference, and worries that by maintaining Bagram as a legal black hole for detainees, the Obama administration will continue to hold terror suspects indefinitely without trial, even if Gitmo is closed. "The fact is that since this first Supreme Court ruling upholding Gitmo detainee's access to habeas corpus," Hafetz explains, "the administration stopped bringing people to Guantánamo and started bringing them to Bagram. The population skyrocketed."

The above article (written by Adam Serwer for "The American Prospect") gives the impression that Obama will review all the Bush terror/torture policies and eventually reverse the many particularly egregious ones. The article also comes to the general conclusion that this will take time. Fair enough. But the Bush policies were so ghastly, I am going to continue to follow Obama's tract fairly closely in addition to his Green agenda (see the below post on his public support of "clean coal"). I generally support Obama and agree with the overall direction he is taking the country in his albeit short tenure, but I dislike the tendency I see in some of his supporters to not think critically of his policies.

If you don't understand why these issues are imperative for the future of this country and want to know more about the Bush admin. torture history... watch these movies. I've posted about them before. They are both awesome in a horrible way... or horrible in an awesome way.. yea.. the second one.