Philip Carter, the Defense Dept. official whose job is to oversee the closing of Guantanamo Bay, has quit. Honestly, the only reason this note resonates with me is because Phil Carter used to run the blog Intel Dump (which eventually got him a gig doing the same thing for the Washington Post) which I read on a fairly regular basis until he went on a lengthy hiatus to work for the Obama campaign. Of course Obama recently announced that his administration will not meet the self-imposed deadline of January 2010, for closing the camp, and given the timing I’m naturally suspicious that Carter’s resignation has something to do with that failure.

UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald isn’t afraid to speculate, but he’s probably right. Anyone with any ounce of principal is going to have difficulty hanging with Obama on Gitmo and the “government always wins” approach to detainee trials.