Obama's own attorney general opposes his latest scheme to close Gitmo

If you understand nothing else about Guantanamo Bay, understand this: Obama's 2008 campaign promise to close it was based on a lie - that the prison represented an injustice that had infuriated the world - and his desperation now to somehow keep this promise before he leaves office is the inevitable consequence of trashing the truth to get elected, only to find that once in office you have to deal with said truth as it really is. Obama has been trying anything and everything he can think of to shut Gitmo down. The problem, of course, is that Gitmo's detainees remain extremely dangerous terrorists and - in case you haven't noticed - the terrorist world has not chosen to cease hostilities against the United States. What usually happens when one party insists on continuing to fight is that the other party hangs on to its prisoners for the duration of hostilities. This bothers Obama because he's never really accepted that this was a war. He wants it to be fought by lawyers instead of the Armed Forces, an idea that other liberals tend to like, but this time he's gone too far even for his own attorney general, Loretta Lynch: