The people of the United States and the world were filled with hope that Obama was the real deal when in his first week in office he signed an executive order supposedly closing Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons. Then the press actually had a chance to read the executive order and were shocked to find... That the executive order only said that Obama was thinking about closing Guantanamo in a year.

In reality, he signed Executive Order 13492, which set an explicit timetable to close Guantanamo and relocate the people being held there.