All the right-leaning critics have been whining about Obama's policies about closing Gitmo and torture memos, etc. Finally they've convinced Obama that releasing this stuff will only drive the terrorist recruiting drives, and hell they're probably right. But it leads us to a damned if we do, damned if we don't situation.

First, if it was that bad, we shouldn't have been doing the shit in the first place. The U.S. is the first to expose other countries for atrocities they have committed against the world. If such atrocities have been committed, those people should be held accountable and responsible for those actions. Remember that if you follow an illegal order, it's the same as commiting the illegal act on your own will.

Secondly, they've convinced Obama that none of these prisoners at Gitmo.. oh wait, they're not prisoners, you hold charges against prisoners. These people who have been put into Gitmo without charges and without a trial, and Obama is now saying that it's possible that any evidence against them has been tainted. So, the sloppy work actually put the world more at risk by assuring that these people being held without charges when it comes time for them to get a trial, they'll be acquitted because of the lack of evidence against them, AND they'll be able to recruit or martyr more for their cause, giving a first hand account on what happened to them while under custody.

And their primary purpose of torture? It turns out they were pressing the prisoners for an Al Qaeda and Iraq goverment link. Wait, I thought we already KNEW that before we invaded Iraq.. so why were they doing that in 2006, three years after the war started?

It's a friggin no-win scenario. You criticize the people who want to bring fair justice to these people who have been held without charges for up to 7-8 years now (which is against INALIENABLE human rights.. specifically, the right to a fair and speedy trial) but you ruined or tainted all the evidence. You held them as long as you could, until your term was over, and then make sure that someone else gets the blame for it in the end. It's a pathetic, Epic Fail.

You know the sign of a bad presidency? When they still talk about your failures and your spin doctors are STILL trying to patch it up for you, four months after you've even left office.