In keeping with campaign pledges and these eloquent words in his inaugural speech:

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety
and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely
imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man,
a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the
world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.

President Obama is expected to sign executive orders directing the CIA to shut Guantanamo within a year.

This is President Obama's first step in REVERSING the policies of Bush. It will require an immediate review of the 245 detainees there to see if they should be  transferred, released or prosecuted.