Eric, I wonder if it is possible to order the closure and dismantling of Gitmo as a separate action, and thereby incidentally move the prisoners elsewhere, preferably to a US base on the mainland? Clinton carried through the closure of many military bases that were extraneous, outdated and inefficient as part of his budget balancing procedures. It was a somewhat unpopular, hot button issue, but it was carried out anyway.
Besides just its reeking humanitarian and political stench, Gitmo is an old base on hostile soil, our land lease payments to Cuba for it just help fund a scuzzy, unlikeable enemy government. In this era of thousand mile range aircraft carrier strategic capability, it is obsolete. Has been for decades. Especially considering all the bases here in nearby Florida. See where I'm weaseling to? Just hoping a future executive order could be someday soon squeaked past GOP control freak derp.
The biggest problem with Gitmo as a prison is it's relative inaccessibility to observation by the world at large...precisely why it has been used to contain suspected terrorists. A dungeon, complete with torture rooms. Which is just too sexy a Man Cave theme for GOP fucks to give up on, apparently.