Why Obama can't legally release or transfer GITMO detainees

CRS report May 30, 2013
Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues

"Efforts to transfer these prisoners and close Guantanamo have been hampered by a series of congressional enactments limiting executive discretion to transfer or release detainees into the United States, including, most recently, the &#60;u>&#60;a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4310enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr4310enr.pdf">National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013&#60;/a>&#60;/u> (2013 NDAA; P.L. 112-239) and the &#60;u>&#60;a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr933enr/pdf/BILLS-113hr933enr.pdf">Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013&#60;/a>&#60;/u> (2013 CAA; P.L. 113-6 ). By prohibiting funds from being used to transfer or release detainees into the United States, or to assist in the transfer or release of detainees into the country, these acts seem to ensure that the Guantanamo detention facility remains open at least through the 2013 fiscal year, and perhaps for the foreseeable future."

The funding text in the law
Because the 2011 NDAA forbides it by effectively cutting off all funding to do so.

The specific part of the law is sections 1032, 1033 and 1034: