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Glenn Greenwald extrapolates from president-elect's words after paying lip-service to waiting to see what the actual policies are, criticizes resulting conclusions about non-actual future policies, achieving the staggering result of a leak confirming that the president-elect intends to make policy a promise that he made a major plank of is platform. Greenwald then crows about the importance of criticizing politicians who nominally share one's ideological orientation, suggesting the incident as a rebuke to 'defenders' he imagines to have suggested otherwise, but who in fact have done little maore than agree with Greenwald's own admonition to wait for the actual policies! Read all about it!
Not mentioned in Mr. Greenwald's statement of his own importance in the fight for restoration of the rule of law was the fact that the president-elect's aides, despite pinpointing a date of January 20 for the executive action ordering the closure of Guantanamo, did not back away from or qualify their warnings that the process is complicated and may take up to a year to accomplish, raising questions about the actual value of the concession. Greenwald had earlier written that "[t]here's absolutely no good reason for Obama not to close Guantanamo immediately."
