Gitmo

Obama has been trying to close the place since he was elected.  Seems to be very firm on it.  Has not had much luck.  The thugs still in Gitmo are really bad people who will go back to waging guerrilla war on the middle east if we turn 'em loose. 
   These guys are in Gitmo for waging war on the US.  They were captured on foriegn battlefields.  They aren't regular criminals, in stir for murder, rape, arson, and drug dealing.  They are in stir for fighting against the US armed forces.  Under the laws of war, we are entitled to hold them prisoners until the war is over.  Which isn't gonna happen anytime soon.  It's more humane than what used to happen in the bad old days.
   The intense opposition to closing Gitmo and moving the prisoners to stateside lockups comes from the public distrust of US judges.  The public fears judges will turn these guys loose inside the country because they have not been accused, let alone convicted of a crime in court.  The normal civilian law of the United States, based on the 13th amendment, requires conviction of a crime in order to hold people in jail.  These guys haven't committed crimes in the ordinary civilian sense of the word.  They are Islamist fighters, who will burn, bomb, and kill if let out.  It's preventative detention, but US law doesn't allow preventative detention. 
  And US judges, cut from fairly stupid cloth, might well turn them loose.