Lindsay also worked hard to keep Guantanamo open...

 

Good riddance to Lindsay Graham. He worked hard to keep Guantanamo open and although there are a lot of others who help (Yes, You too Obama) I think it is fair to say that Lindsay played an important role. So yes, good riddance to you Mr. Graham. 

This is just an excerpt from a longer article well worth reading. Link to the full article at the bottom.

By the spring of 2009, Republican opposition to closing Guantanamo and Democratic timidity in the face of that opposition coalesced into an early wedge issue against Obama on Capitol Hill. Here was a way to portray the then-politically potent Obama as dangerously unconcerned with "national security" without affirmatively opposing the end of the politically toxic Iraq War. (Graham, consistent here at least, had no problem affirmatively opposing withdrawal from Iraq.) Graham didn't join in. Instead, Graham spent the better part of a year working on a plan with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to deliver the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay—but that plan depended on jettisoning the vast majority of what had made Guantanamo objectionable and internationally infamous.

Throughout 2009 and into 2010, Emanuel and Graham worked on something that represented a grand bipartisan bargain on terrorism detentions. First Graham worked with Michigan Democrat Carl Levin to pass into law the Military Commissions Act of 2009, reviving a system for nonjudicial military tribunals that the Supreme Court had struck down in 2006. Obama signed it into law. While Graham and Levin worked on it, granting the accused more procedural rights than in the pre-2006 version, Obama laid the rhetorical groundwork for it in an important speech at the National Archives that May. In that speech, Obama not only defended the concept of military commissions, he embraced indefinite detention. He treated indefinite detention as the "toughest single issue" related to terrorism detentions, meaning it as a regrettable embrace of a wicked problem that he inherited from Bush. (And in the process, Obama soft-pedaled the reason for keeping some Guantanamo detainees as forever-prisoners: they had been tortured so severely as to compromise any hope of a credible trial, even in a military commission.) 

What Obama described as an exception, Graham, with Emanuel, sought to make the new status quo. While no one should go easy on Obama for conceding the legitimacy of indefinite detention without trial in any case, he was talking about the disposition of existing cohorts of Guantanamo detainees who had experienced extensive torture. Graham, by contrast, was trying to build a system of indefinite military detention as a solution for future captives, including from the distant battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. In exchange, Graham promised to find the Republican votes in the Senate for closing Guantanamo. To Emanuel, it represented an early win for Obama on a campaign promise cherished in particular by the left. 

Link to the full article here.