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WashPost: "Announcing the closure of the controversial detention facility would be among the most potent signals the incoming administration could send of its sharp break with the Bush era."
TIME: "Obama has vowed to close Guantánamo ... But major hurdles stand in the way of doing so, ...
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Guantanamo Closure Called Obama Priority
washingtonpost.com - 11/12/2008
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Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 12, 2008;
A01 The Obama administration will launch a review of
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Guantanamo Closure Called Obama Priority
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Reports: Obama Sees Closing Gitmo As Top Priority, But Huge Hurdles Remain
TPM Election Central —
... A pair of must-reads this morning do a nice job of laying out one of Obama's top transition priorities, and the huge challenges inherent in getting it done: The closing of Guantanamo Bay. ...
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Reports: Obama Sees Closing Gitmo As Top Priority, But Huge Hurdles Remain
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/13/2008 — A pair of must-reads this morning do a nice job of laying out one of Obama's top transition priorities, and the huge challenges inherent in getting it done: The closing of Guantanamo Bay.
First, Time magazine has a solid and detailed report ...
A Gitmo Commission?
atlargely.com 11/23/2008 — According to the HuffPo and Newsweek today, Obama is considering a middle course between straight-out investigating the need for prosecutions for war crimes and just letting the Bush administration's torturers skate.
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Re: Gitmo News
corner.nationalreview.com 2/18/2009 — The majority opinion of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing Judge Ricardo Urbina's lawless order that 17 Uighur detainees be released in the United States, is emphatic. A sampling:
Justice Frankfurter summarized the law as it continues to ...
Gitmo.
instaputz.blogspot.com 2/9/2009 — I remember the good old days when, said Putz , merely criticizing Guantanamo Bay "helps the Bush Administration" and that Amnesty International, in doing so, "joined the rather lengthy list of those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome." Putz even ...
Obama to close Gitmo, but then what?
hotair.com 11/12/2008 — No matter which candidate won the election, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay for captured terrorists would have closed. Both Barack Obama and John McCain had pledged to shut down the controversial center, which received a deluge of criticism ...
Who will be Obama's top diplomat? —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/12/2008
The State Department sits ready to receive President-elect Obama's foreign policy transition team — the first major transition for the agency since the Clinton administration turned the keys over to George W. Bush.
U.S. general urges Obama not to cave to Russia —
Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite objections by Russia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to stick to the Bush administration's plans to place missile defenses in Eastern Europe.
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