While you were sleeping: Obama transfers 5 Gitmo detainees to UAE ~

Late Sunday night (!), the Pentagon announced that 5 Guantanamo detainees were being transferred to the United Arab Emirates.

 
 
As usual, his timing is impeccably nefarious. As the Hill reports, he’s taking this action just ahead of his expected signing of a defense bill that will place restrictions on transferring prisoners from the facility ~

(The move) comes before Obama signs the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which will make it harder to transfer the detainees.
 
Obama is running out of time to close Guantanamo before leaving office. His administration is poised to send Congress a plan for closing the facility and bringing the remaining detainees to a prison in the United States.

 
Any doubts which side POTUS is actually on?