The New Yorker's Amy Davidson did a really good write-up on this. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/04/wikileaks-the-uses-of-guantanamo.html

The New Yorker's Amy Davidson did a really good write-up on this. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/04/wikileaks-the-uses-of-guantanamo.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/04/wiki... The Hindu takes the prize for the most blistering, incandescent (and richly deserved) attack on the US Administration. http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1767369.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1767369.ec... And Al Jazeera hosts some especially pointed commentary about what's NOT included in the leaks. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/2011425182559745235.html http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/201142... tl;dr: Between them, Clinton and Bush amassed an odious and vile legacy of extrajudicial policy. Obama is too scared of House Republicans to say so, has no way to deal with them effectively, and cannot counter their political threats. Now that the story has gotten ahead of the Presidency, America is (quite fairly) getting slapped around the world for being stupidly violent, prone to extreme over-reaction, and disturbingly lawless.