New York Times: “In a series of secret nighttime flights in the last two months, the Obama administration made more progress toward the president’s goal of emptying the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, than it had since 2009. The accelerated pace came after an era of political infighting and long bureaucratic delays.”

Associated Press: “Fed up with the stalled progress toward closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, President Barack Obama summoned top administration officials to the White House for an unusual meeting last month to make it clear he wanted action. The president addressed the team at length, emphasizing why he wants to shut down the detention facility for terrorism suspects, according to administration officials familiar with the meeting, which wasn’t on Obama’s public schedule. The presidential lecture was the culmination of months of White House frustration with his own administration’s inaction. Since then, the a dozen prisoners have been transferred overseas — more than all of last year and the most since 2010.”

[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]President Obama is methodically going down his list of campaign promises and trying to check them off. [/speech_bubble]