We here at USDemoCrazy love controversy!  It can spice up a sports game, show interesting sides of celebrities and politicians, and liven up any social gathering. (”No, Mom, I have no idea how the spaghetti sauce got up there!”)

But there’s the famous and the infamous, and although some controversies entertain us, others are just really unfortunate.

Like the controversies surrounding Guantanamo Bay that have left a dark stain on the U.S.’s human rights record (remember the torturing going on in 2006?).

We thought all of this was going to change on January 21, 2010, exactly one year after President Obama said he would shut down Guantanamo Bay, located in Cuba, still the home of 196 detainees from around the globe.

Today, despite trying to shut down Guantanamo for a year, officials stated that almost 50 detainees are “too dangerous” to send back to home nations.
The BBC reports that

The other nearly 50 detainees are considered too dangerous to release, but cannot be tried because the evidence against them is too flimsy or was extracted from them by coercion, so would not hold up in court.

However, many are hoping that Guantanamo will shut down anyway, and if evidence is flimsy, than the detainees should be free to go. …read more.