Once upon a time evil President Bush had a problem—the military had detained some bad guys and needed to put them somewhere. The Bush Administration was concerned about detaining them in the U.S. because the detainees would be subject to more legal protections. So they put the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. And the rest is history.

As a Presidential candidate Obama castigated the indefinite detention of the detainees. And I agreed with him. If these guys are truly bad guys, they should be tried and sentenced. It is not right to indefinitely keep people in prison year after year without trial.

But then Obama was elected President and everything changed. Just after his inauguration, he signed a silly Executive Order ordering the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. The Executive Order was silly because he didn’t have a plan of what to do with the detainees.

Now major media outlets are reporting that the Obama Administration wants to indefinitely detain people of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in the U.S. indefinitely.

This is a bad policy. The problem at Guantanamo Bay is that people were detained indefinitely without trial and Obama needs to fix that. Ironically Obama voted against the Military Commissions Act and now me might us it to give some, but apparently not all, of the Guantanamo prisoners a trial.

If you like conspiracy theories, you could argue Obama wants to bring some of the Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. knowing full well they might be afforded more rights and get out of jail more easily. You can easily see the Supreme Court ordering trials instead of indefinite detention, especially if these guys are in the U.S.