Gitmo Unlikely to Close by 2013?

President Obama made several big promises on the campaign trail—foremost among them, to close Guantanamo Bay. After missing his initial deadline of January 2010, amid political opposition and shifting priorities, it’s now looking increasingly unlikely that the White House will successfully shut it down by 2013. Earlier this year, the administration vowed to move detainees to a prison in Illinois, but obstacles to that plan have arisen in Congress, and Obama’s done little to vanquish them. “There is a lot of inertia” against closing Gitmo, “and the administration is not putting a lot of energy behind their position that I can see,” Senator Carl Levin, who supports the Illinois plan, told The New York Times. Senator Lindsey Graham, who also supports closing it, said the effort is “on life support and it’s unlikely to close any time soon.”