Obama Decision: Bipartisanship vs. Excessive and Unlawful?

This should be the cover of Time and Newsweek!

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff has pinned an article entitled "Obama and Torture" this week describing the hesitation of the President-elect's transition team to seek prosecution of US citizens alleged to have been involved in 'war crimes.'

FEAR strikes again within the president-elect's transition leadership circle. Some of the President-elect's men propose a 9/11-like commission to study the issue of unlawful human torture to boost so-called Congressional "bipartisanship!?" This comes despite the striking words of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder's description of the Bush Administration's torture policy as "excessive and unlawful."

HOPEfully, President-elect Obama is committed to justice and values. The new President should not trade the rule of law for mere bipartisanship on Capitol Hill.

Ginny Hill, over at Slate.com, also writes: "Obama's Next Arab Headache: What to do with Guantanamo's Yemeni detainees?" By the way, how many foreign nationals are being held by the United States in Cuba today?