Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder went on a visit to Guantanamo Bay, home to some of the worst terrorists captured since 9/11. Mr. Holder will report back to his boss, Barack Hussein Obama on conditions and probably why we should find a nice home for these murderers in the US.

John Murtha (D-PA), who has accused Marines of murder, has invited the terrorists to him home district. How nice of the erstwhile Murtha to be so generous. Murtha believes housing Gitmo terrorists in Western Pennsylvania would be good economic stimulus and a job creator. By the way, those Marines have been exonerated from murder charges.  I suppose self-defense and terrorist removal is part of the Marine job description.

Obama has set a goal of shuttering the facility within a year. And a large part of Holder’s visit involves talks with officials about detention and interrogation practices. In the new administrations practice of censorship even their buddies in the mainstream media accompanied Holder on the flight.

Mr. Holder and Obama, along with their Leftist ilk have accused the Bush administration of torture at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere throughout the world.

Two days before Barack Obama took office as president, the New York Times weighed in with an editorial–not its first–denouncing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for violating the rights of terrorists:

In a long series of valedictory speeches and interviews, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been crowing about Guantánamo Bay, secret prisons and abusive interrogations, claiming they met the highest legal standards and that no prisoner had been tortured. Fortunately, the truth broke through the noise, in the words of some of the very people ordered to carry out the policies. . . .

That is the real nature of Mr. Bush’s grotesque legacy: abuse and torture at an outlaw prison where hundreds of men–many of whom did nothing–have been held for years without real evidence or charges. And truly dangerous men were treated so badly that it may be impossible to bring them to justice.

This past weekend a news story carried the headline “Guantánamo Meets Geneva Rules, Pentagon Study Finds.” This story also appears in the NY Times and the study was at the behest of Obama:

A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concluded that the prison complies with the humane-treatment requirements of the Geneva Conventions. But it makes recommendations for improvements including increasing human contact for the prisoners, according to two government officials who have read parts of it.

One Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities involved in challenging the White House plan to close the prison, argued that the report showed that the Bush administration had created a humane detention camp.

Under the Bush administration the prison detention center at Guantanamo Bay was a house of horrors. Now that Obama is in charge all they need now is more personal contact and a nice soccer field.

We understand the waters around the center are shark infested so may we recommend surf boards for the detainees too. Indeed!