By Neil Durkin Apr 29, 2009

How should we measure Obama's progress when it comes to the "war on terror"?

...For me Bagram is the true test. Clanging shut the gates of Guantánamo will be important, so will facilitating greater openness and ensuring that the process of accountability begins to truly uproot the poisonous policy plants that were allowed to grow during the Bush/Cheney/Bybee era.... It's the Afghan Guantánamo and amounts to something close to a continuation of George Bush's policies in the era of Barack Obama.

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