Opinion: It’s Still George Bush’s World – AOL News
Even more than a year after his inauguration, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda is still largely devoted to fixing the messes he inherited from Bush. And that’s likely to continue to be the case for quite some time to come, unless Obama makes a more fundamental [...]

Many Ex-Detainees Said to Be Engaged in Terror – NYTimes.com
Administration officials said Wednesday that a classified Pentagon report concludes that of some 560 detainees transferred abroad from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, about one in five has engaged in, or is suspected of engaging in, terrorism or militant activity.
The detainees released are by definition [...]

Six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be repatriated – washingtonpost.com
Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), a critic of the administration policy on Guantanamo, said Yemeni detainees pose a particular risk because of the instability of their home country.
“Stop. These men are dangerous,” Wolf said when asked about the transfer. “I believe they will be involved [...]

I’ve written about this before, but this is a good time to revisit the issue.  From today’s NYT: 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Foun:
An unreleased Pentagon report provides new details concluding that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has [...]

Blogger Andrew Sullivan has likened torture to a cancer on America’s democracy, that “metastasizes quickly and poisons everything it touches.” Today’s Washington Post has a story about likely investigations in Europe of torture during the Bush Administration:
European prosecutors are likely to investigate CIA and Bush administration officials on suspicion of violating an international ban on [...]

General David Petraeus spoke eloquently this morning about the need to preserve our values even as we prosecute a fight against those who would do us harm.
Asked by CNN’s John King about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that President Obama was making America less safe, General Petraeus said:
PETRAEUS: Well, I wouldn’t necessarily agree with [...]

There is a news story out today that the CIA confirmed destroying 92 videotapes of interrogations of terrorist-suspects since 9/11/2001.
According to the AP, the tapes
were destroyed, in part, to protect the identities of the government questioners at a time the Justice Department was debating whether the tactics used during the interrogations—which are believed to have [...]

A Pentagon report of the conditions at Guantanamo Bay, commissioned by President Obama, found that the treatment the detainees received at the dentention center was in compliance with the Geneva Convention, according to the Washington Post.  However, the report stated that many prisoners in the higher security levels should be allowed more time for “religious and [...]