ASÍ QUE "agujero negro de los derechos humanos" y "limbo jurídico y vergüenza para el derecho internacional", ¿eh? A ver que dicen ahora todos aquellos que llevan años con la misma cantinela, ahora que un informe solicitado por Obama concluye que Guantánamo sí cumple con la Convención de Ginebra. Esperaremos sentado a las rectificaciones:

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.

The review, requested by Mr. Obama on his second day in office, is to be delivered to the White House next week.

The president’s request, made as part of a plan to close the prison within a year, was widely seen as an effort to defuse accusations that there were widespread abuses at Guantánamo, and that many detainees were suffering severe psychological effects after years of isolation.

The report, by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of naval operations, describes steps that could be taken to allow detainees to speak to one another more often and to engage in group activities, the government officials said. For years, critics have said that many detainees spend as many as 23 hours a day within the confines of cement cells and often were allowed to exercise alone in fenced-off outdoor pens.

The report is being presented to a White House that some government officials have described as caught off-guard by the extreme emotions and political crosscurrents provoked by its plan to close the Guantánamo prison. Some critics said the report’s conclusions could intensify the debate about the prison, and put the Obama White House for the first time in the position of defending it.

No sólo defenderla, sino que como ya he escrito desde hace tiempo, cada vez está más claro que la promesa que hizo Obama de cerrar Guantánamo va a seguir el mismo camino que la de Zapatero de cumplir el código de buen gobierno. Tened en cuenta que ya ha habido un par de pistas, la última ayer. Como los lectores de Barcepundit ya sabéis, ni Guantánamo es una aberración sino algo perfectamente amparado por la legislación internacional sobre la guerra.

ACTUALIZACIÓN. Y aún más, por si no lo tenéis claro: la administración Obama ha informado a un tribunal federal que mantiene la posición de la administración Bush según la cual los detenidos sin cargos en el campo de batalla en Afganistán no gozan del derecho constitucional a recurrir su detención".