Indeed, there is a lot more going on here than we know. I fully believe there are are strategies being formulated in the White House that may even be making some of his cabinet members uneasy. But, being liberals they would never go public with any objections.
The question is whether he’s making his chain of command uneasy enough that they will realize there is a foreign enemy combatant in the White House and they have a duty to protect the country and the troops below them FROM HIM.