Obama's Guantanamo

Obama announced he would close Guantanamo within a year. That's good if he does it. But there are two issues he needs to deal with if he really wants to accomplish something durable on that front:
1) How will he deal with the 242 prisoners now in Guantanamo? Plans are to send them to other prisons, for example in prisons on military bases in the US, or in other countries (European countries are debating at whether or not they will accept detainees from Guantanamo). Related, what kind of legal system will be used to deal with those prisoners? Is it going to be the same as Bush but under another name? Or is it going to be fairer? That remains to be seen.

2) While Obama is saying he will close Guantanamo, another similar prison, Bagram in Afghanistan, is being used by US forces and holds more than 600 detainees. And that's not all, efforts are under way to expand it to hold about 1,100. Further, legal protections for detainees at Bagram are deficient, as reported by the Christian Science Monitor: "Unlike the Guantánamo detainee cases, lawyers in the Bagram case have never been permitted to meet or communicate with their clients. Bagram detainees are not entitled to the combat status review tribunals and other safeguards set up at Guantánamo."