Glenn Greenwald unloads:
[W]hat is the point of closing Guantanamo if all of its architecture and defining traits — indefinite detentions with no trials — will be preserved and simply moved elsewhere? What made Guantanamo evil and destructive isn't that it was located in Cuba. What made it such was that that — to use Obama's melodramatic campaign language — it was a "legal black hole." Closing it, only to re-create its core tyrannies in Bagram and re-build it as part of some "preventive detention" scheme, is worse than useless: it's actively misleading. There will be some American journalists and probably some hardened Obama loyalists who believe that closing Guantanamo — while moving and re-creating its core features — is some sort of "change." But the rest of the world is highly unlikely to be tricked.
The Dish 