From today’s New York Times, a revelation:

The revival of a bitter, long-running debate behind closed doors in the Bush administration comes only a few months after the Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told President Bush that they believed that Guantánamo’s continued existence was undercutting American foreign policy efforts around the world, and would ultimately prove a stain on Mr. Bush’s legacy.

”I guess I shouldn’t be surprised,” the president said on learning of the stain. “We have an old saying down in Texas, we say no good deed goes unfurnished.”