And In The Darkness, Bind Them

Something must have thrown a scare into the Tyrant, but I don't think it was the Hamdan ruling. Perhaps the prospect of torture becoming a Senate football and political issue for a number of tight races in November, together with questions about the Tyrant's ability to escape international justice during post-incumbency travel. In any case, the mainstream media was awake enough to correctly report the government's sudden acceptance of the Geneva Conventions as a reversal, but failed, surprisingly, also to ask the logical questions of what happens now to Guantanamo, to the rendition program, and to 'black sites', or for that matter grey sites such as Bagram air base. Regardless of other aspects of their treatment, merely holding a person indefinitely without charges is, as I would interpret things, also a violation.