A few days after Obama’s inauguration, the Washington Post‘s Dana Priest wrote that Obama effectively ended the war on terror–excuse me, Bush’s “war on terror”–by signing executive orders to close Gitmo and CIA prisons and limit interrogation methods.

Priest also informed readers that in the bad old days of Bush’s war on terror, “Front companies and fictitious people were used to hide a system of aircraft that carried terrorism suspects to ‘undisclosed locations’ and to third countries under a little-known practice called rendition.” But lo and behold, today the New York Times reports “Obama’s War on Terror May Resemble Bush’s in Some Areas“: