Should have closed Guantanamo on my first day: Obama

Washington, March 19 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has said that he should have closed the Guantanamo Bay prison on his first day at the White House back in 2009 when there was consensus with Republicans on its shutting down, Efe news agency reported. Asked at an event in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday what he would do if he could go back to his first day in the White House, Obama replied, "I would've closed Guantanamo on the first day." "I didn't because at that time we had a bi-partisan agre