The American Pundit

So says the military review ordered by President Obama. You mean we’re not running a miniature Auschwitz down in Cuba?

A Pentagon review of conditions in the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Convention but that prisoners in the highest-security camps should be allowed more religious and social interaction with each other, according to a government official who has read the 85-page document.

The report, which was ordered by President Obama, was prepared by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of naval operations, and has been delivered to the White House. Obama requested the review as part of an executive order on the planned closure of the prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base on the southeastern tip of Cuba…

Walsh concluded that … force-feeding, which involves strapping prisoners to feeding chairs and forcing tubes down one nostril and into their stomachs, is in compliance the Geneva Convention’s mandate that the lives of prisoners must be preserved, the government official said.

So, uh, good news or bad news for the administration? Well, if it were to look for cover in order to keep the prison open longer than the year, it’s great news. If it still wants to close the detention center, a move a near-majority now oppose, it might want to keep this quiet. And I’m sure the media is willing to oblige.

Would the administration dare to keep Gitmo open after Obama’s railing against it for years? I wouldn’t even try to guess. The left considered rendition, which it called “torture by proxy”, evil only until it was announced rendition would be continued under Obama. Then there was the fitness addiction, which was supposedly worrisome and odd under Bush, which suddenly became a cute quirk when Obama never skipped the gym. Horrors under Bush suddenly become acceptable when it’s Obama in charge.