Over the weekend, the Pentagon airlifted a slew of reporters and a handful of family members of 9/11 victims to Guantanamo Bay to watch the latest in the trial of five prisoners.What was mostly meant as a photo op turned into a genuine, huge news story when all five detainees, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, abruptly pleaded guilty.In the aftermath of the guilty pleas, everyone is wondering what's next for the most glaringly visible stain on America's international ethical repu
This morning President Obama signed the order to close Guantanamo,
as he has been promising to do for weeks, but it is unlikely the doors to the
detention center will close anytime soon. That's because no one is sure what to
do with the 250 or so people still detained there. An estimated 100 detainees
may not be prosecutable for any specific offense but are too dangerous to
release. Legal experts are divided over what should be done with them; the
options range from sending them to other countri
It is common knowledge among conservative bloggers that the mainstream media was totally in the tank for Barack Obama during the whole election, but now that he's actually president, it seems they don't really know what to do with themselves. So they've reverted back to the only thing they've known for the past eight years: trying to undermine the president at every turn with their dastardly methods of reporting and analysis. Politico's top story today is titled, "Why the Gitmo policies may no
