Obama’s deadline for closing Guantanamo having passed, “it’s unclear, as we sit today, whether it’s gonna close at all,” says Matt D’Aloisio, the founder of Witness Against Torture. “Insiders expect the Obama administration to reverse course and decide to try the 9/11 defendants by military commission at Guantanamo’s camp Justice – in a new $12 mn courthouse. General Lake believes that the trials can keep Guantanamo open for a while.”