I don’t envy Obama. He knows that if he lifts the lid on this a shitstorm of mythic proportions will erupt which will consume his presidency and push everything else to one side, including health care reform and other things that are at a once in a lifetime stage to get them done. These camps ARE concentration camps. Lawyers from New York who went to camp 6 to defend detainees described them it as a ‘concentration camp’. Guantanamo Bay is in fact a torture camp, something which is completely prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. The truth about Guantanamo and the crimes committed there could see warrants issued for the arrest and extradition to the Hague of military personnel and politicians such as Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

Of course America would never hand them over but those with warrants hanging over their heads would never be able to leave the United States again without fearing arrest and trial.And the Democrats fear they will be blamed and seen as traitors for revealing the truth and that the media machine bought and paid for by the Republicans will broadcast this message day and night ending any hopes of re-election for Obama and keeping them out of government while the ghouls return to the White House to do god knows what crimes that are on their to do list. Like invading Iran for example and starting another cold war with Russia and destroying the global economy all over again. The situation is that you have to weigh up tragedies and decide which tragedy is worse. Allowing the fascists back into the white house IS worse and the truth will come out with or without Obama’s help. Whichever way it goes, the fascists will never be on trial in the Hague so Obama is asking himself why he should throw himself on the Republican/neo con funeral pyre and burn with them. It’s a valid question: but the moral choice is never the easy choice. My guess is, that in his (hopefully) second term Obama will be open to the idea of revealing all but he only has two terms to change things that will actually take decades to fix. He doesn’t want to leave office with nothing accomplished except the futile pursuit of people who are too powerful to ever be sent to the Hague. But he’s far too intelligent to believe that he will never have to grapple with all this.

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

These cannot be compared to the Nazis’ camps. It is a shame that they are lying to us just as Bush did.

The U.S. just validated the point that Guantanamo et al. is worse than Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and dang that’s some nasty business. What the Obama administration is hiding from us all, proves positively that Bushco MUST stand before war crimes tribunals. Well and Team Obama. Covering up for Bushco is collusion and that is inexcusable. Unforgivable?