Executive Order: Guantanamo Closure and Review
washingtonindependent.com 1/23/2009 — 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 ...

Obama issues executive order to close Guantanamo Bay prison
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 1/22/2009 — President Obama has ordered the eventual closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (Getty Images/File)WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama issued four executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush ...

Obama to order Guantanamo Bay prison closed
cnn.com 1/12/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama is expected to sign an order closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantanamo Today, Guantanamo Tamarrah, Guantanamo Forever
washingtonindependent.com 10/21/2008 — Remember when George W. Bush was supposed to be considering closing Guantanamo Bay? Explain why anyone ever believed that would happen, please. The New York Times : Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay , Cuba, ...

Greetings from Guantanamo Bay
thetalkingdog.com 2/14/2009 — Recent TD interview subject Almerindo Ojeda of the Guantanamo Testimonials Project hits it out of the park with his own interview of former GTMO prison guard Army Specialist Brandon Neely....

Obama Closing Guantanamo: Preparing Order In First Week
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 ...

Closing Guantanamo: Part 1
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/13/2009 — 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 Bay , according to two presidential ...

No Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Files
poligazette.com 1/25/2009 — The Washington Post reports that the Barack Obama administration has run into a major problem: there are no comprehensive files about Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Team Obama searched for these files in order to assess the danger posed by every ...

Draft order calls for closing Guantanamo Bay (AP)
news.yahoo.com 1/21/2009 — AP - The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay within a year and halting any war crimes trials in the meantime.

Voices from Guantanamo Bay
airamerica.com 2/6/2009 — Voices from Guantanamo Bay Actors and Poets Group, a New York-based nonprofit theater company, will present live excerpts from their current production: Voices From Guantánamo, a theatrical adaptation of poetry written by detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  ...

Obama rallies support for bailout, recovery plan — CNN Political Ticker 1/13/2009
Barack Obama met with Senate Democrats for the last time before next week's inauguration. (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats and make his case for how he wants to spend the ...

Bernanke: More bank bailouts needed — CNN Political Ticker 1/13/2009
Bernanke says more bailouts are needed. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that President-elect Barack Obama's proposed fiscal stimulus package could help the economy, but he added that additional ...

School reform key in Duncan confirmation — msnbc.com: Politics 1/13/2009
Barack Obama's choice for education secretary, Arne Duncan, said Tuesday that the No Child Left Behind law should stop punishing schools where only a handful of kids are struggling.

Obama Dines with Conservative Journalists — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/13/2009
Susan Davis reports on the transition. President-elect Barack Obama made an unscheduled stop this evening to attend a dinner party at the Washington, D.C. area home of conservative columnist George Will . A press pool photographer also ...

Judge: Copy of disputed documents goes to Obama (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/13/2009
AP - A federal judge says the incoming administration of Barack Obama must be given copies of documents the Bush White House has been withholding from Congress on the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.