But there is one unfulfilled promise from President Obama’s 2008 campaign that he must deliver on in the final year of his tenure.
He must close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, where the first inmates began arriving 14 years ago. The prisoners were dumped in a legal black hole, stripped of any rights and often subjected to egregious forms of torture, or “enhanced interrogation” to use the sanitised vocabulary of the Bush years.