It doesn’t matter that the Guantanamo Bay facility is to be closed in the next year’s time, or that the Executive Order President Obama signed establishes that no prisoner can be treated outside of the what the Army Field Manual states – because the manual currently includes extraordinary rendition, solitary confinement and other methods of isolation, sleep and sensory deprivation, and manipulation and creation of fears through what would be call psychological duress.  Translation: the prisoners at Gitmo are simply being moved to other facilities and can still be held without charge indefinitely, simply by order of the President stating that the individual is an enemy combatant and can still be held to what some might consider, torturous conditions.

What this amounts to is a shell game, designed to show the American Idle, Obamabots and world leaders that Obama is “living up” to campaign promises, while proving to those who actually read these things that nothing really has changed and the mess is being swept under the rug.  No prisoners in Gitmo!  Now they’re in facilities in Egypt, other areas of the US, or held on Naval ships at sea etc.

More on the underlying crap involved in this shell game can be found here, here and here.