THE GUY IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...:

Obama to revive Guantánamo military tribunals (Damien Pearse, 5/15/09, guardian.co.uk)

Obama suspended the tribunals within hours of taking office in January, ordering a review of the military commission system. But he stopped short of abandoning the process altogether. [...]

"It's disappointing that Obama is seeking to revive rather than end this failed experiment," said Jonathan Hafetz, a national security lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union.

"There's no detainee at Guantánamo who cannot be tried and shouldn't be tried in the regular federal courts system."

Human rights campaigners point out that during last year's presidential campaign Obama called the tribunal system "an enormous failure" and that he vowed to "reject the Military Commissions Act".

...and you'd like to be able to take him at least mildly seriously...but you can't.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 15, 2009 6:27 AM