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Published 1/23/2009 by Joby Warrick and Karen DeYoung at Wash Post Obama Administration
President Obama took dramatic steps yesterday to reverse Bush administration policies on the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, ordering the closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banning the use of controversial CIA interrogation techniques. But he left...
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