The military personnel working at Gitmo today are essentially, if not exactly, what this job description outlines. I don’t find it unsettling at all that the Army is hiring for such positions. Who else is going to guard military prisoners?
The text of the ad hasn’t been altered in at least four years. If they’d inserted the word “domestic” somewhere in there, this listing might mean something. But it doesn’t.
That dooesn’t mean there won’t be political prisoners in the age of Obama. Socialism cannot exist without political police and political prisoners, to paraphrase Churchill. It just means that this job posting doesn’t offer any evidence of it.