If you want to see what news the Obama administration is hoping you will miss, just pick up the Saturday paper. The White House has perfected the art of making sure the most embarrassing items for the president appear when Americans are headed to the beach or the pool with family, and least likely to see them.

This was the case last month, when the administration chose the Friday before Memorial Day weekend to leak an official report which confirmed that 95 percent of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are terrorist leaders, operatives, or fighters.

It happened again this Saturday, when word came—buried on page A13 of the New York Times—that the White House has effectively given up on closing Guantanamo until after the next presidential inauguration. In a story, “Closing Guantanamo Fades as a Priority,” the Times reports that “the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013.” According to the Times, the White House is washing its hands, and laying the blame on Congress for the failure: