Last week we had noted that Obama is considering continuing the Bush interrogation tactics, but now even his supporters and the harshest critics of President Bush are moving to that light as well. Now that I must say is truly shocking.

    As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama sketched the broad outlines of a plan to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba: try detainees in American courts and reject the Bush administration’s military commission system.

    Now, as Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guantánamo, his pledge to close the detention center is bringing to the fore thorny questions under consideration by his advisers. They include where Guantánamo’s detainees could be held in this country, how many might be sent home and a matter that people with ties to the Obama transition team say is worrying them most: What if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be prosecuted at all?

    That concern is at the center of a debate among national security, human rights and legal experts that has intensified since the election. Even some liberals are arguing that to deal realistically with terrorism, the new administration should seek Congressional authority for preventive detention of terrorism suspects deemed too dangerous to release even if they cannot be successfully prosecuted.

    “You can’t be a purist and say there’s never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventively detain someone,” said one civil liberties lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor who has been a critic of the Bush administration.

Wait, did we read that correctly? Did it just say "to deal realistically with terrorism, the new administration should seek Congressional authority for preventive detention of terrorism suspects deemed too dangerous to release even if they cannot be successfully prosecuted."

Historically at least most of the liberals and by relation the close-Guantanamo crowd for the last seven years have been whining that you can not do that. That indefinite detention somehow violates American Values. I know that Barack Obama gave no indication of this plan to continue with these tactics. I am quite surprised at him actually, impressed may be a better word. We shall see what he really does once in office though.

It appears that now Obama can not simply say anything he wants to get a vote, and will have to live with his choices, his agenda has changed a bit. So what happens once Barack Obama and his administration decide to continue with the Bush tactics on terroism? I know that the insane nutjobs at MoveOn will probably revolt against this action. What I hope happens though, is that we will have a true re-evaluation of the Bush tactics and efforts to keep this nation safe. A success that has been working, if you have not noticed there has not been a terrorist attack on American soil since September 11th.

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