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Change at the White House Web Site
The Caucus —
... ’s servers will fill up with the official history of the new administration’s work. For now, though, the servers remain nearly empty. Users who clicked on “ Executive Orders ” in the new Briefing Room page, for example, received the message: “The President has not yet issued any Executive Orders.”
Transparency Could Use Some Catching Up
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] I read earlier that President Obama has signed five executive orders today. I'm hoping we get to read them at some point, but the White House website currently ...
Obama Signs Five Executive Orders In First Three Days
Nice Deb —
... From the Obama White House website:
January 22, 2009
Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
Review of Detention Policy Options
Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
Just between you and me…..if he actually goes through with this…and even one of these detainees goes on to kill American soldiers again on the battlefield, or civilians in a terrorist attack, there will be hell to pay. If there is another ...
The Era of “Transparency” has Begun!
Flopping Aces —
... between our safety and our ideals” was itself misrepresenting the choices his predecessor was forced to make. At least President Bush was candid about the practical realities of preventing mass casualties in the U.S.
This Executive Order is merely to throw a plastic bone to the Code Pink-minded chomping for the real deal; and signal to the critics abroad that “change has come” to Washington.
CJ went through the executive order and points to the following: ...
Wither the War On Terror?
Counterterrorism Blog —
... Ms Priest pegged her story to President Obama’s announced intention of his plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison facilities, where habeas corpus rights have been denied and the signing Thursday of executive orders to nullify the legal orders and opinions on interrogations issued by executive branch lawyers since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. President Obama declared an ...
Aubrey Sarvis: When the President Orders, the Military Follows
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... While he may not have reversed global warming, etc., the day of his inauguration the President did order more open access to governmental records, including presidential papers, and suspended all judicial proceedings at Guantánamo Bay pending review. The next day -- the President's first full day in office -- he signed two executive orders and three presidential memoranda. On Thursday he signed orders that would close Guantánamo Bay within a year, shut down the CIA's network of secret prisons, and end "enhanced interrogations," i.e. torture, by the United States Government. He ...
Fuel Efficiency Standards, Executive Orders and Rule by Decree
QandO —
... To date 5 EOs and 7 PMs have been issued. This may just be an initial flurry written to address immediate problems he finds necessary to address in that way. But this one in particular has me wondering. Certainly something to monitor.
Obama: 'It's Like the American Dream in Reverse'
Political Punch —
... , and for President Obama to sign three labor-related executive orders . But President Obama also took the opportunity to herald the stimulus package making its way through Congress as part of a solution to the economic quagmire. "I hope we can strengthen it further in the Senate," the president said of the bill. "What we can't do is drag our feet or delay much longer." -- jpt January 30, 2009 | ...
Obama Helps Organized Labor
TalkLeft —
... today designed to reverse the Executive Branch's hostility toward organized labor. The text of the orders hasn't been posted on the White House website as of this writing, but should soon be available here for viewing. ...
John V. Santore: What is Obama's Rendition Policy?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool. Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. ...
The LA Times On Rendition
Obsidian Wings —
... Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. ...
Obama Keeps Terror Rendition Policy
GayPatriot —
... Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. ...
Work Americans Won’t Do!
No Runny Eggs —
... Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. ...
Rendition is Still an Option
Stones Cry Out —
... Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. ...
