You would expect Obama to add prisoners to Guantanamo while he's desperately trying to close it? And you think he could just disappear an extremely visible personality and no one would be suspicious? The fact is they have him dead to rights on breaking the law and any court would easily convict him and give him at least a few if not many years in jail. He'd probably plea bargain to something face saving and be done with it.
Haven't heard a peep out of him about Gitmo this decade. If this is what counts as "desperately trying", I've got to wonder what term you use for actual effort.
You've got a lot more faith that extralegal shenanigans won't happen than I do, for sure. Snowden's leaks have shown us that the US government will do anything if it thinks it can get away with it, the law be damned.
Besides. What happened with Bradley/Chelsea Manning is all "legal", and that amounts to straight-up torture.
