This article in the Washington Times reports that Obama will move to close detention centers where terrorism suspects were held and interrogated overseas. This move will undoubtedly be popular with both civil rights advocates and terrorists, but it should not be.
In the absence of such sites, many more enemy combatants will die "on the battlefield" or "attempting to escape." Such deaths generate less bad publicity for the U.S. than detention centers do. What will be missing will be the intelligence gained from interrogating enemy individuals.
Well-intentioned efforts often have unintended consequences, sometimes fatal ones.
