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The closure of the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba is beginning to look like a protracted and uncertain project for the Obama administration as political, legal and security concerns limit the president's options.

Having blown the one-year closure deadline set last January in an executive order, the administration is planning to transfer some detainees to a state prison it hopes to acquire in Illinois. But there appears to be little mood in Congress to provide the administration with either the funding for the prison or the authority to transfer detainees who will be held indefinitely.

Political strtategist Tamara Holder says the administration still plans to close Guantanamo Bay but a lot of uncertainty still remains.

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