With hundreds of detainees now released the administration's initial claim that the prison housed the "worst of the worst" grows ever more hollow.

Six years ago the first of 778 prisoners -- identified only by numbers -- arrived at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

General Mullen's musings do nothing to address the inertia referred to by Robert Gates over the plans to close Guantánamo, but they represent a break from the views of his predecessors.

Yesterday, the AP reported on a letter from Guant�namo written by Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj. The letter had just been declassified by the Pentagon's censors.

The case of Maher Arar is one of many chilling examples of the damage caused by failed intelligence in the Americans' program of "extraordinary rendition."

It's an extraordinarily long sentence for little more than a thought crime, andwhen the issue of Padilla's suppressed torture is raised, it's difficult not to conclude that justice has just been horribly twisted.

Given that both Obama and Clinton have expressed their desire to close Guantanamo, it's a tribute to Obama that over 80 lawyers for the Guantanamo detainees have endorsed his campaign.

I can only hope that this administration's disdain for the law and for human suffering will help the justices to rule for the detainees, and that in the meantime Mr. al-Ghizzawi does not die in Guantanamo,