Many of these things were not needed.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Obama will discuss, among other things, the steps are needed to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27