Good job Obama - setting the scene for his terrorist friends to not only walk, but to get "free" citizenship and probably a nice cash settlement (courtesy of the US taxpayers) to boot!
There is a distinction between coercive interrogation of combatants and torture, but Obama has seen to it that it's all called torture. Win: Obama/terrorists - lose: us.
Bring these enemy soldiers onto US territory, which grants them constitutional rights they would not otherwise have. Win: Obama/terrorists - lose: us.
By fiat, apply the rules of a criminal court (e.g. reasonable doubt, rules of evidence) to what was throughout history the purview of a military tribunal. This applies, retroactively, and ridiculously, the rules of Miranda and chain-of-custody evidence rules to foreign battlefields. Win: Obama/terrorists - lose: us.
The enemy is laughing their asses off at us, and the fool that we elected as president. When the tables were reversed, they simply dragged the "suspects" through the street until they were dead.
But our leader can't even move a few hundred helpless sandal-wearing prisoners elsewhere, despite his pointless promise to "shut down Gitmo". But while moving the prisoners should have been trivial (and orrelevant), Obama somehow managed to accomplish one thing: endanger Americans (and New Yorkers in particular) by moving the trials to NYC. If that Times Square bomber had been just a little less incompetent, the blood would have been on Obama's hands, not that he would acknowledge it, or even care. He's already stated that further USA terrorist attacks are acceptable.
