The invaluable McClatchy:

These are some of the legal issues confronting [Obama]:

How does he close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba? He's pledged to shutter it, but how quickly can he do so when it holds some detainees whom no administration would want to release?

Obama has declared coercive interrogation methods such as waterboarding unconstitutional and illegal, but will his Justice Department investigate or prosecute Bush administration officials who ordered or condoned such techniques?

Will the new administration press to learn the full extent of the Bush administration's electronic eavesdropping and data-mining activities, and will it curtail or halt some of them?

The Bush administration exerted tight control over the Justice Department by hiring more Republican-leaning political appointees and ousting those who were viewed as disloyal. Will Obama give the department more ideological independence? ....

Civil libertarians, who feel emboldened by a Democrat in the White House, tick off a long list of what they think Obama should do as soon as he takes office. Not only should Guantanamo be closed, they say, Obama should revoke the immunity for telecommunications companies [that he voted for; never happen] that cooperated with secret eavesdropping, ban the use of secret prisons by the CIA and investigate and perhaps prosecute administration officials for authorizing controversial interrogation methods.

Although Obama is likely to ban waterboarding and other aggressive techniques soon after taking office, prosecuting administration officials not only would be legally challenging because legislation has granted them immunity but also would be seen by Republicans as highly divisive.

"... highly divisive." My candidate for understatement of the year.

Republicans who torture and break the law should get ponies too.

Because everybody gets a pony!

NOTE Of course, an alternative explanation would be that the Gang of Eight, which includes Harry and Leader Nance, is in it all up to their eyeballs, and all their claims that they've been kept in the dark are so much window-dressing. How would we know? That would make the "divisive" part prosecuting Republicans and not Democrats. Just saying.