Chuck Hagel: “If confirmed, I will uphold this commitment.”

One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.

It is hard to overstate how damaging the continued existence of the Detention Facility at Guantanamo has been and continues to be.

The President has determined that closing it is a national security imperative.

There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?