The press has highlighted several documents from the latest WikiLeaks cache that deal with the Obama administration’s attempts to close Guantanamo. The administration can’t close Gitmo without transferring a large number of the remaining detainees to other countries. But its efforts in this vein have borne only some fruit — not nearly enough to get the job done.

As of January 2009, when President Obama took office, there were approximately 240 detainees at Gitmo. The administration has transferred only about 66 detainees since, according to data compiled by the New York Times. In addition, one detainee was transferred to the U.S. to stand trial and another committed suicide. This leaves the administration with just over 170 detainees, or more than 70 percent of the detainee population inherited from the Bush administration.