I don’t think that closing Gitmo will really affect national security cause the US is pretty big, so I’d expect us to have more than one prison of that type. I think that Obama is just doing it to get brownie points with the international community, and all the prisoners will be moved to some other equivalent prison and the only real change will be their location. Heck, if it wasn’t for the huge prisoner abuse scandal there a few years back, the majority of both Americans and international politicians would probably either not know or not care about its existence or continued operation.
Prison abuse scandal at Gitmo? I must have missed that. Are you sure that Gitmo is what your talking about?