Democrats seem so happy these days that Obama is taking steps to close Gitmo. Good for him. Never mind his approval of extraordinary rendition, I guess.
But did you know that Obama is doubling the size of the Bagram "detention facility?"
It's so much easier and more politically correct to hold prisoners indefinitely and use secret "enhanced interrogation techniques" in a US defined "war zone."
The cognitive dissonance the democrats are capable of never ceases to amaze me.
"But as Guantánamo is being drawn down, large-scale construction is under way at a US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Some critics are already calling it "Obama's Guantánamo." And it looks to become the next big flash point in a long legal tug of war over the direction of America's antiterror policies.
An estimated 242 prisoners remain at Guantánamo. In contrast, more than 600 are held at Bagram, and efforts are under way to expand facilities to potentially hold as many as 1,100 terror suspects."
