State Dept. Closes Office Working on Shutting Guantánamo Prison ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/us/politics/state-dept-closes-office-working-on-closing-guantanamo-prison.html?partner=
The announcement that no senior official in President Obama’s second term will succeed Mr. [Daniel] Fried [the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba] in working primarily on diplomatic issues aimed at repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so.