Gitmo to Stay Open the Remainder of Obama's Term

Since the Obama admin has decided to punt on the issue this really isn't much of a surprise:

WASHINGTON — Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013.

When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss Mr. Obama’s initial January 2010 deadline for shutting the prison, it also declared that the detainees would eventually be moved to one in Illinois. But impediments to that plan have mounted in Congress, and the administration is doing little to overcome them.

“There is a lot of inertia” against closing the prison, “and the administration is not putting a lot of energy behind their position that I can see,” said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and supports the Illinois plan. He added that “the odds are that it will still be open” by the next presidential inauguration.

There really is no logic behind closing the place besides throwing a bone to the domestic left and the talking point that it provides a propaganda tool to our enemies. To be frank we have seen a complete abdication on bringing justice to KSM and Al Qaeda as the president and his team have just given up on the issue. Just for the heck of it, here the one in action: