An unidentifiable detainee spends time outside his cell in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, on July 6, 2005. Andres Leighton / AP fileFrom The Telegraph:
At a meeting with Vice President-Elect Joe Biden and senior members of Mr Obama's transition team, they presented a long list of "things that need to be done and undone".
They called on him to reverse the controversial interrogation, detention and rendition policies of the Bush administration.
The group was headed by General Joseph Hoar, a retired marine who headed the Central Command region from 1991 to 1994.
The generals were motivated by concern that the use of waterboarding, secret prisons, the abuse at Abu Ghraib and the detention without trial for six years of prisoners at Guantánamo had sullied the global reputation of America and its military.
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My Comment: We get back to the ticking time bomb. Will torture be used to extract information from a suspect who has information of a terrorist attack that may cost a number of American lives. The answer from the new administration is a resounding NO.
If this is the case, we would need to then know what the alternative procedures would be. How do you go about extracting intelligence from captured terror leaders and planners.
The impression that I receive from the New Administration is that nothing will now be done.