...Time is running out, but even if Obama does close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers like Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights says it doesn't address a fundamental problem with U.S. policy.

"That policy of continuing and thus perpetual detention without charge would continue," Kebriaei said. She represents one of the recently transferred detainees and a number still held. One client remains there, even though he was cleared in 2014.

"We need to be critiquing the policy of indefinite detention and be less concerned about the location of Guantanamo," Kebriaei said, adding detainees are given little to no support and attention needs to be paid to what happens to them after they're transferred. ...

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