Obama and Gitmo

From Captain Ed Morrissey, here:

I noted that Barack Obama's team has started hinting that they will move back towards John McCain's position on interrogation techniqiues.  Now supporters of Obama who have criticized the Bush administration's position on indefinite detention have begun rethinking that policy as well:
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"You can't be a purist and say there's never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventively detain someone," said one civil liberties lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor who has been a critic of the Bush administration.

You can't?  That's all we've heard from the close-Gitmo crowd for the last seven years.  Indefinite detention supposedly violates American values, we're losing the war if we adapt to the threat against us, blah blah blah.  Certainly Barack Obama never gave any indication of nuanced thinking along the lines of indefinite detention during the last two years while campaigning for the presidency.  In fact, Obama made the absolutist case that Cole now belatedly rejects in June 2007:

"While we're at it," he said, "we're going to close Guantanamo. And we're going to restore habeas corpus. … We're going to lead by example _ by not just word but by deed. That's our vision for the future.

Now that Obama has to live with these decisions and not simply snipe from the sidelines, the game appears to have changed.