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Eyeing the wrong president
Political Animal — ... . And third, again, the argument about how this relates to Obama is flawed. As Atrios noted , 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 ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS? Sorry, the left is not at fault here, for a lot of reasons, not just the ones Atrios listed. Freed by the U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief The emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — Atrios: Without even getting into the actual accuracy of the latest bit of wingnut porn about how 61 released Gitmo detainees supposedly returned to take up arms against the US, can anyone explain how this is supposed to represent a failure of Obama's policies? He didn't let them go. Liberal bloggers didn't let them go. The ACLU didn't let them go. And if George Bush has "kept us safe," what exactly is it that these terrorists have done? More Atrios, this time on the "Jack Bauer Exception": ...

The Myth of 61 and the Fear Wulitzer
Daily Kos — ... In what Atrios has perfectly dubbed wingnut porn, the all fear all the time threat of the "terrists" is loose again, it's target now being Obama's closure of Guantanamo. What they're using ...