washingtonindependent.com - 1/23/2009
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES By the authority vested in me as President by the ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/23/2009
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(a) Over the past 7 years, approximately 800
individuals whom the Department of Defense has ever determined
to be, or treated as, enemy combatants have been detained at Guant namo. The Federal Government has moved more than 500 such detainees from ...
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Closure Of Guantanamo Detention Facilities
foxnews.com - 1/21/2009
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Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he'd be willing
to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional
district if President Obama makes good on a plan to close the U.S. prison there. As one of his first acts in office, the president circulated a ...
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Murtha Says He'd Take Guantanamo Prisoners in His ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/22/2009
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By the authority vested in me as President
by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in ...
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Political Animal —
More On Today's Executive Orders Now that I've actually read Obama's Executive Orders on detention ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; the 4th is a pdf), I wanted to highlight a few more points. First : "The individuals currently detained at Guantanamo have the constitutional privilege of the writ of habeas corpus." This was expected, but it's immensely important nonetheless. It's also very good that the Guantanamo order puts a lot of emphasis on speed: as it says, the detainees have been there for quite a while now, and deciding what to do with them promptly ...
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... Now that I've actually read Obama's Executive Orders on detention (1, 2, 3, 4; the 4th is a pdf), I wanted to highlight a few more points. First: ...
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kansas.com 1/22/2009 — Associated Press TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that she opposes any effort to move about 250 suspected terrorists being housed at Guantanamo Bay to Kansas and calls the entire detainee process "a huge black eye" for the United States. ...
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