Ethics

OMG, We're Gonna Die!

By Ed Brayton

That pretty much sums up the reaction from the loony right to Obama's order to close the prison at Gitmo and end torture. Glenn Greenwald is doing an excellent job of debunking all the fear-mongering. I like this part especially:

The New York Times today prints a front-page article claiming that a detainee released from Guantanamo last year has now become "the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch" (it's always amazing how bureaucratically structured Al Qaeda is alleged to be and how well we can discern the structure: "Deputy Leader, Yemen Branch"; do they have business cards and organizational charts?).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).