No Executive Orders Yet

If you go to the White House Briefing Room website today, you'll see something that only happens every four years or so, a site free of Executive orders. However, the Washington Post reports today that:

the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.

A "clear break" yes, but far from closing Guantanamo and easing the world's frustration with it. In fact, the Post posits that such a move is merely a legal maneuver:

designed to provide the Obama administration time to refashion the prosecution system and potentially treat detainees as criminal defendants in federal court or have them face war-crimes charges in military courts-martial. It is also possible that the administration could re-form and relocate the military commissions before resuming trials.

I'm assuming that whatever the Obama administration decides to do with the facility and its processing of prisoners, it will be light years better than what the Bush admin had in place. However, anything other than closing Guantanamo is still not good enough.