Since Obama didn't manage to close the facility, the order was effectively already dead.
"It is premature to close the facility without knowing what we're dealing with," Mr. Dirzius said.
The analysts went on TV and radio, decrying Amnesty International, criticizing calls to close the facility and asserting that all detainees were treated humanely.
Last month, Obama asked for $80m£60m0m) for the Pentagon and the US justice department to close the facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by January.
Broadly, the report found that the Obama administration transferred the five fighters for Bergdahl's release because it fulfilled one of the president's campaign promises to close the facility.
The next day, neighborhood officials refused to extend the residential permits that the patients are required to reapply for, and made plans to close the facility.
At the first location, I told workers, "We are going to have to close the facility or sell it, but none of you will be working for Shell".
Even if Obama's plan to close the facility wins the unlikely support of Congress, about half that population would remain detained indefinitely in the continental United States.
These circumstances still obtain, and despite repeated pledges to close the facility made by President Obama, which date from before his inauguration, the prison and its practices subsist.
The school announced Tuesday that it would close the facility, the New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass., over the next two years.
The city reached an agreement with Seneca in February to close the facility and redirect remaining financing toward other programs that serve at-risk youth.
