On her program this week Rachel Maddow spoke with Glenn Greenwald, a Constitutional lawyer and columnist for Salon.com about Guantánamo Bay and the challenges (litigious and otherwise) the prison presents the incoming Obama administration moving forward. Greenwald explained that in light of Obama’s campaign promise to close Gitmo, the Bush administration has rushed to begin military commissions on some of the more controversial suspects in custody at Gitmo. Because these proceedings have already begun, Greenwald said, it will be harder politically for Obama to close the prison as soon as he takes office.

–Marissa Colón-Margolies

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