By Paul Greenberg"A few notes on this administration's latest incoherence:
The president and commander-in-chief had pledged to close the brig at Guantanamo by January 22. So what's he going to do with the prisoners there now? Turn them loose? Surely not. Instead, it's been decided to move the prison, or at least part of it, to a site at Thomson, Ill., on that state's western edge. Call it Gitmo on the Mississippi.
The new site, or at least the part of it that is to house the Gitmo crowd, will still be run by the Department of Defense rather than the Department of Justice. The unlawful enemy combatants held there, though they can no longer be called unlawful enemy combatants under this New Dispensation, will still be treated as such. It sounds as if everything will be the same except the location."
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