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Instahoglets for Friday, January 23rd
Newshoggers.com — ... and John Cole, among others, are both trying to figure out how Bush letting a bunch of dangerous folks go from Guantanamo is somehow Obama's fault. They might be his problem now, but it is definitely part of Bush's legacy. ...

Eyeing the wrong president
Political Animal — ... , it wasn't Obama's policy that led to their release. The administration created this nightmare at Guantanamo, which was supposedly necessary for U.S. national security. What do we have to show for the former president's efforts? A series of bad guys who went free, and many more bad guys we'll struggle to prosecute because the Bush administration broke the law and tortured them. As John Cole noted , "The moral of this story is not the danger for Obama going forward with his Gitmo decommissioning, the moral is that when venal, shallow, small men are given unfettered power and ...

This explains a lot
Political Animal — ... starts to make a lot more sense. But to put this in an even larger context, consider just how big a mess Bush has left for Obama here. The previous administration a) tortured detainees, making it harder to prosecute dangerous terrorists; b) released bad guys while detaining good guys; and c) neglected to keep comprehensive files on possible terrorists who've been in U.S. custody for several years . As if the fiasco at Gitmo weren't hard enough to clean up. I'm reminded of something John Cole said the other day: "The moral of this story is not the danger for Obama going ...

The Bush-Cheney Wreckage
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... I'm reminded of something John Cole said the other day: "The moral of this story is not the danger for Obama going forward with his Gitmo decommissioning, the moral is that when venal, shallow, small men are given unfettered power and authority, they do incompetent, stupid, and evil things." ...

Gitmo: Where's the evidence? Cases prove impossible to prosecute
Crooks and Liars — ... on evidence that was later found to be missing, false or unreliable. Do you want more incompetence? He said the evidence was scattered throughout databases, in desk drawers, in vaguely labeled containers or "simply piled on the tops of desks" of departed prosecutors. "I further discovered that most physical evidence that had been collected had either disappeared" or had been stored in unknown locations, he said. John Cole says: Here is what I don’t understand: Why is this repeatedly framed as ...