Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Sunlight in action

Who knew? A damning Amnesty International report, a comment or two from Jimmy Carter, and now the White House starts paying attention:
President Bush left the door open to an eventual closing of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday amid mounting complaints and calls for it to be shut down, including a broadside from former president and human rights champion Jimmy Carter.

Naturally, he's paying more attention to the symbol than to the actual problem, apparently wanting somewhere else to hold people without charges just in case. Even so, this is an impressive demonstration of what good information can do.

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