So we get a feint in the direction of closing the American Gulag. Obama is raising the flag saying he is planning to close it "the first day". Like most basketball players, this is a good looking move. Until you notice that he is really saying that he is going to turn it over to the torturers to decide exactly when and how they will close it. That means that it will never be closed. The fake trials will go on, the torture will go on, the illegal detentions will go on. We need to make some effort to communicate with Obama that what we were talking about is closing it. Now. There is no need for a study. We know it is illegal already. There is no need for another kangaroo trial. These guys need to either go directly to US jails in Kansas, where they can be charged like criminals, or they need to go directly back to places where we know they won't be tortured or murdered. After all, our military and the CIA know for sure where all the places are that you can outsource torture already. We don't send them back to any of those places.
Here is a link to a site that will let you send a letter asking for a simple closure plan, not from the torturers, but from people as horrified by our lawlessness as we all are.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=OngZ6jq38wT6K0kpaXe4TQ..
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