While Congress and the White House cannot come to an agreement on the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees are languishing away in a political limbo or as in the case of former detainee Saad Iqbal Madni who after 6 1/2 years of being held at the detention facility is faced with having to start over.

Madni was tortured day and night and attempted suicide while at Guantanamo. In 2008, he was released and sent back to his home country of Pakistan where he is under suspicion and harassed by local law enforcement. Madni is an Islamic scholar who was picked up in Indonesia, transferred to Egypt where he was interrogated by local officials, moved to Bagram prison in Afghanistan and spent the remainder of his detainment at Guantanamo. Even though the White House is still pursuing the closure of Guantanamo, the longer it remains open the U.S. Justice system weakens and transition for former detainees into community is hindered.

The man who authored the infamous ‘Torture Memos’ John Yoo was debating the ACLU President in Washington DC, an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Yoo’s appearance didn’t go unnoticed by CODEPINK DC. CODEPINK cofounder Gael Murphy made her way into the debate and shouted “Shame on you, Mr. Yoo!” According to the Daily Caller, Yoo joked that the protest made him feel at home – Berkeley. Activists including CODEPINK have been protesting John Yoo inside and outside the classroom where he teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley.

CODEPINK activists in Dallas decided to have a vibrant presence at a George W. Bush speaking event, dropping a banner in the hotel atrium where the conference was taking place. The fierce women were eventually questioned and confronted by local law enforcement and Secret Service.

George W. Bush was scheduled to speak at a Christian university in Toronto, Canada, but had to cancel because students and faculty launched a petition drive against his appearance. Even though this event was cancelled, Bush still has a full itinerary of public engagements throughout the U.S., and St. Louis Park, Minnesota is next on his stop. Former FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley writes ‘Bush Kept Out of Canada, Can We Keep Him Out of Minnesota Too?’

A scheduled pro-Clinton march through downtown Denver Tuesday is co-sponsored by a group called PUMA, whose initials stand for “Party Unity My Ass.”

This demonstration has no conceivable purpose other than to embarrass and weaken Obama at a critical moment in the campaign. There is no bargain to be struck, no goal that anyone can bestow on the Hillary tantrum-throwers.

Now two friends of mine know this PUMA guy—like, slept-with level know—and they seem to believe PUMA was started as a way to get on Fox News. Which, the afternoon the “organization” was announced, he did. And now he appears regularly. As if he were part of a movement. And he is the leader.

All of this is fine, of course—politics as usual, even (PUMA could start straight-up throwing McCain rallies and no one would bat an eye)—but it is pretty dumb. Dumber, even, than crazy pink sheep costumes or what have you, and significantly dumber than the anti-war message hidden like a wolf inside them. Gael Murphy provides one:

“Five or six times, Congress has clearly passed resolutions or bills that say there will not be permanent bases in Iraq. And yet, we’re talking about possibly 50,000, (or) 60,000 troops remaining. The bases being built there look very permanent to us.”

“The topic was deadly serious,” the report reads, “but the CodePink ladies were clearly having fun.”