Washington, Jan. 16: President George W. Bush said Thursday that closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is "not as easy as it sounds," sending a warning to President-elect Barack Obama that he will have to find a way to prevent those released from coming back to attack the U. S.

"People will find that there''s quite a few that are very dangerous people and to put them in a position where they can eventually get out on the street and come back and harm one of our citizens would be a very dangerous policy," Bush told The Washington Times in an interview in the Oval Office.

Washington, Jan. 16 : As President George W. Bush delivered his final goodbyes to America on national television, his would be successor Barack Obama and his wife Michelle dined at the DC restaurant, Equinox Thursday night.

According to CBS News, there was no indication on whether or not Obama watched Bush''s farewell remarks.

The President-elect departed the Blair house, located right across the street from the White House podium from which the president spoke, minutes before President Bush commenced.

Washington, Jan. 16 : A majority of Americans think outgoing President George W. Bush is a good person, but according to a Fox News poll, more than twice as many think history will not be kind to Bush.

According to the poll, 34 percent of Americans say they approve of the job he is doing and 58 percent disapprove - his highest positive rating since December of 2007.

Prague  - Big Brother would like to be watching you. But he can't, because his computer has crashed.

That was the problem occupying European Union interior ministers on Thursday in Prague as they debated the 27-member bloc's continuing inability to share the fingerprints and photos of foreigners entering the border-free Schengen zone because of computer bugs.

Washington , Jan 15 : President George W. Bush has revealed that the lowest point of his presidency was "being called a racist" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In the days following the disaster caused by Katrina, Bush was criticized for what most say was a slow federal response to aiding victims, especially in the heavily African-American, Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans.

"I think being called a racist because of Katrina was a low point," Politico. com quoted Bush as telling CNN's Larry King.

Washington, Jan. 15 : In an article for the Washington Post, noted journalist Bob Woodward says that there is actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush.

Having written four books on Bush, totaling 1,727 pages, Woodward says that there are actually ten lessons that Obama can take from his predecessor's eight-year-long presidency.

1. Presidents set the tone. Don''t be passive or tolerate virulent divisions.