As Attorney General Eric Holder prepares Monday to visit the terror detainees and their guards at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is fair to say that the first month of the Obama administration has been a major disappointment to civil libertarians and others who believed that the new president would swiftly deconstruct some of the most dubious terror law policies enacted by the Bush White House and the Pentagon.
It’s true that President Barack Obama formally pledged in the first hours of his presidency to close down Gitmo within one year. But don’t forget that George W. Bush declared on several occasions that he, too, wanted to close down the place as quickly as possible. - CBS News
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