"Just as ruthless and indifferent to the rule of law as his predecessor." Ouch.

[MadHound]

19. Gee, didn't you post that nonsense yesterday?

And wasn't it slapped down then? Oh, yeah, that's right, it was. Here, let me slap it down again for you.

He hasn't closed Gitmo, and while the public is still fixated on that installation, he continue the operations at Bagram.

"Although President Obama issued an executive order on his second day in office, in January 2009, requiring interrogations to conform to the Army Field Manual (PDF), which prohibits physical violence and “enhanced interrogation,” Ambinder reported that, in the “black jail,” prisoners are subjected to sleep deprivation and isolation based on the Field Manual’s Appendix M (which Jeff Kaye has been writing about since last January), and which, under controlled circumstances, allows a range of Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques” to be used, including sleep deprivation and isolation. Ambinder also explained that when Appendix M techniques are being used, the man responsible for overseeing them is Gen.James Clapper (Ret.), the undersecretary of defense for intelligence."
http://pubrecord.org/torture/7806/obama-doing-bagram-part-one-torture/

"However, attorney Tina Foster feels that the new initiative is just a cosmetic measure. “There is absolutely no difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration’s position with respect to Bagram detainees’ rights,” she said during an interview."
http://www.salon.com/2009/09/21/bagram_5/

"Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to the Taliban...."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/28/808755/-NYT-WashPost-Torture-in-Obama-s-Bagram-Prison#