Obama Supporters Angered as White House Bows to Republican Pressure on Gitmo, NatSec

“In Obama World, every short-term defeat is a long-term opportunity,” Marc Ambinder writes, but it’s going to be very hard to spin the failure to shut down Guantanamo Bay, a promise made “well before the administration had begun to review the casebooks and intelligence reports about the 240 odd detainees in United States custody.”