Many of the people there are not even terrorists. They were caught up in large sweeps for terrorists. 59 or so Yemenis have been cleared for release but are still stuck there even though the US has deemed them not terrorists. Guantanamo Bay won't close any time soon because the congress (especially Republicans in congress) will continue to terrorize people at the prospect of holding trials, moving them to other prisons in the US and so on.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/eric-holder-yemenis-guantanamo
They might be released soon, hopefully.
There were Republican legislators who wanted the surviving Boston bomber (who is a US citizen) to have no trial and just go straight to Guantanamo, literally taking away all of the basic rights of Americans so they can pretend to be tough on terror.
The whole Guantanamo Bay detention camp is one of the most disgusting things the Bush administration started and Obama has probably calculated he can't close it down with so much Republican opposition and not pay a political price. He'd rather pay it elsewhere.
It also amazes me that people who pretend to be the most patriotic Americans are terrified of putting on trial (using the American system of laws) the terrorists that they claim are attacking the US for its free system.
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