Obama Watch: Traitor

Traitor to what? Not just those who elected him, not just those overseas who believed in him, not just the Guantanamo prisoners. He has betrayed the Constitution. Just as President Bush authorized indefinite imprisonment without charge (like the Soviet Union's gulags) so President Obama has decided to continue the practice, as he eluded to in his May "civil liberties speech." Here's Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the announcement.

I conducted my protest with the assumption that President Obama was going to fulfill his executive order (happy anniversary) to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay. I was worried about Bagram. But now, he's keeping 50 people there because they're too dangerous to release, based off of confessions obtained via torture.

In addition, Scott Horton's piece in Harper's Weekly exposes the supposed suicide deaths of three prisoners in Guantanamo as murders. Murders, that is, by their American jailers/torturers/interrogators.

Of course, given Obama's suspension of the Constitution in setting up a gulag, the Justice Dept will take no interest in investigating these claims, much less prosecuting someone who was actually responsible.

We live in an increasingly lawless state.