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WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office and perhaps his first day to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay , according to two presidential transition team advisers. It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy ...
abcnews.go.com - 1/11/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he
does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his...
first 100 days in office. "I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus ...
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Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days
google.com - 1/12/2009
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2 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Advisers to President-elect
Barack Obama say one of his first duties in...
office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. That executive order is expected during Obama's first week on the ...
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The Associated Press: Obama preparing order to close Gitmo
abcnews.go.com - 1/11/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he
does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his...
first 100 days in office. "I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security ...
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Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in First 100 Days
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Obama will issue executive order, first week in office, to close Gitmo
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
It takes time to make these kind of changes, but issuing an executive order week-one is far more than a simple promise. It's action. This is good. It's also, I believe, a sign that Team Obama is starting to realize that it needs to reach out to the left, and not just the right. ...
Closing Guantanamo: Part 1
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... by hilzoy From the AP: "President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo ...
Closing Guantanamo: Part 2
Obsidian Wings —
... by hilzoy From the AP story on closing Guantanamo: "What remains the thorniest issue for Obama, the advisers said, is what to do with the rest of the prisoners — including at least 15 so-called "high value detainees" considered ...
1/13: Oh, Guantanamo
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... to issue an immediate executive order to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. However, they're concerned that Obama is reportedly considering trying some of the Guantanamo detainees in a "to-be-developed legal system" that would exist outside of our federal court system. ...
Hopeful Change Down Guantanamo Way
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... on one of those "legal challenges," that is, can we in fact rely on standard courts to deal with these prisoners, now that the "military commissions" system is probably going to be immediatley nixed? Should a new "hybrid" system be developed, as an AP story speculates? The crux of the problem, says the Monthly: ...
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huffingtonpost.com 1/16/2009 — WASHINGTON — Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his first duties in office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. That executive order is expected during Obama's first week on the job _ and ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/22/2009 — President Obama moments ago signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo detention facility within a year.
The move makes good on a key Obama campaign promise.
Obama also signed two other orders, reviewing military trials of terror ...
Group urges early Obama easing of Cuba sanctions —
Reuters: Politics 1/12/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama should reinvigorate U.S. trade ties in Latin America and the Caribbean during his first 90 days in office by softening the most punitive sanctions on Cuba, a leading business group said on Monday.
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