Guantanamo Bay has still not shut down, and recently CIA director Panetta stated that if a top al-Qaeda leader was captured, they would probably be detained there.

Some of the Obama administration are trying to argue that Ghailani's conviction on one count is a victory. The Justice Department is now hoping to secure a life sentence for that one charge so they can brush this embarrassment under the table.

By continuing Bush-era national security policies, and committing to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, President Obama has left Democrats disappointed.

The Obama administration's Guantanamo task force found that 95 percent of those held at Guantanamo are confirmed terrorists, and while the press may have used the report to vindicate Obama, Congress is not buying the spin.

If the CIA “deniers” won’t accept the word of the former vice president, and the four CIA directors who have testified that CIA interrogations produced invaluable intelligence, perhaps they will believe WikiLeaks.

President Barack Obama will soon realize that governing involves hard choices.

If experience is anything to go by, the Marines who misbehaved in that video will be disciplined and punished—while those who are trying to exploit those images to undermine their mission never will be.

By failing to confront the Guantanamo debacle, the White House risks undermining essential congressional and popular support for the war's pivotal conflict: the counterinsurgency in Iraq.