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• Monday, June 29, 2009 06:23 AM

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  plea is a bit of a strawman. It is perfectly consistent to defend Obama's decision while not criticising the earlier decision to release them. As many people of apparent good faith (I'm talking about commentators to blog sites here, not necessarily pundits who by definition take a black or white tack to issues) have said, we might have made a different decision but we can understand the decision made. So long as it does not go beyond the legal powers of the Executive branch, I can't quite see the objection. Certainly, it is O's right to appeal a Court decision - as it is any other person's right in the US.

  Also, there is a nice little self-manipulation going on here by relying on so-called right wingers to make the argument for you, Glenn. Perhaps there might be an ulterior motive to those dudes claiming that O has adopted Bush's policies wholesale?

  I would also have liked a fair update to this and to yesterday's article with the comment from O spokesman (he was named so not an anonymous source) saying there was no draft executive order. Also, perhaps a link to articles such as this one http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/27/cleaning-guantanamo/ in which the commentary is far more nuanced than most other commentary.

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