Obama Promises Closing of Guantanamo

Here’s Barack Obama in 2008 promising to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.  Guantanamo was opened in 2002 by George W. Bush to detain prisoners from the War on Terror, often indefinitely and without trial, and under brutal conditions where they are subject to torture.  Obama made closing Guantanamo one of his major campaign promises in 2008, and while the number of prisoners was gradually reduced, the prison remains in operation as no major effort was made by the Obama administration to fulfill its promise to close it.