Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

I'm still erring on the side of presuming that what's going on has more to do with pragmatism than it is with deliberate, coldly conceived policy.

I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.

It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.