Over at Salon, nothing from Glenn Greenwald yet on President Obama’s siding with Bush on how to treat terrorists held at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, but Joan Walsh is not a happy Obamaniac:

I said a few days ago that I would hold off on criticizing Obama for things he might do, after Charlie Savage’s disturbing piece on signs the new president might ultimately back Bush-Cheney terror policies like extraordinary rendition and indefinite detention of terror suspects. Late Friday came news of something Obama actually has done, and it’s appalling: He’s backed the Bush administration claim that terror suspects held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights, according to the Associated Press. . . .
In related news: Please read Mark Benjamin’s exclusive interview with retired Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, the man who investigated Abu Ghraib and was punished by Donald Rumsfeld for his honesty. Taguba is one of the leading voices asking Obama to establish a commission to examine Bush-era torture policies. I hope Obama listens, but I would say this decision on Bagram at least partly implicates Obama in those same policies.

Turns out Obama’s policies, to paraphrase Hillary, aren’t change you can believe in, but actually policies you can Xerox — from President Bush.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This item has been amended since its first posting.