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Obama issues executive order to close Guantanamo Bay prison
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/22/2009
Obama issues executive order to close Guantanamo Bay prison
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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 administration on the war on terror, including one requiring that the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay be closed within [...]
Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) Hours after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases. Military judges were ... (more) Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News

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Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility
cnn.com - 1/23/2009
Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility
— cnn.com — A guard keeps watch from a tower at the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (more) Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility

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gallup.com - 1/22/2009
Americans Send No Clear Mandate on Guantanamo Bay
— gallup.com — WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With President Barack Obama already taking action relating to the U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay on his first full day in office, Americans are sending no clear mandate on the issue. Slightly more think the United States should not ... (more) Americans Send No Clear Mandate on Guantanamo Bay

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Done: Obama signs order closing Gitmo within a year
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Just one of four you’ll see executed here; the second ends enhanced interrogations by the CIA. Note the third, though, establishing a task force to review all detention policies and procedures. If that ...

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Re-Setting the Guantanamo Bar Very Low
corner.nationalreview.com 1/16/2009 — Today's lead story in the Washington Post reports that President-elect Obama "will consider it a failure if he has not closed the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first term in office."
OUCH: Perino Mocks Obama: ‘Gosh It’s So Complicated To Close Guantanamo Bay’ . UPDATE: Charles …
pajamasmedia.com 1/16/2009 — OUCH: Perino Mocks Obama: ‘Gosh It’s So Complicated To Close Guantanamo Bay’ . UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer: “Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The ...
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 ...
Hopeful Signs
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/22/2009 — by hilzoy From the Washington Post : "In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at  ...
Barack Obama to Close Overseas Interrogation Sites
wizbangblog.com 1/22/2009 — This combined with closing Guantanamo Bay does not give me confidence that Barack Obama is serious about protecting us from radical jihadists who are bent on killing as many Americans...
Graham Endorses ‘Indefinite Detention’ Of Guantanamo Detainees
thinkprogress.org 1/22/2009 — Yesterday, President Obama ordered a halt to all prosecutions of Guantanamo detainees in order to “ review the military commission process .” The AP reports today that Obama is circulating a draft executive order calling for closing ...
Obama To Close CIA "Black Sites"
huffingtonpost.com 1/23/2009 — President Obama is devoting his second full day in office to foreign affairs. While much attention has been paid to his plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Washington Times reports on other overseas changes : President Obama on ...
Eyeing the wrong president
washingtonmonthly.com 1/24/2009 — EYEING THE WRONG PRESIDENT.... With Barack Obama closing down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, stories like this are going to generate quite a bit of attention. The emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of...
Obama freezes top-pay, adds ehtic rules
swamppolitics.com 1/22/2009 — by Mark Silva Signing his first executive orders today, President Barack Obama imposed a freeze on the pay of White House staffers making more than $100,000 a year - there were 95 of them, at last count, making as much as $168,000 - and the new ...
White House Web FAIL?
engagedc.com 1/23/2009 — A couple of days ago, I reviewed the launch of the new WhiteHouse.gov . Today, nearly 72 hours after Barack Obama’s inauguration, the only official documents of the Obama Administration online are his inaugural address and his executive orders. ...
Gitmo orders prompt terror debate — msnbc.com: Politics
President Barack Obama issued sweeping orders to rein in secretive counterterrorism policies and end harsh interrogations, prompting immediate skepticism over whether they would keep Americans safe.
Most Agree With Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay, Poll Finds — Wash Post Obama Administration
In ordering a suspension of legal action against suspected terrorists at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Obama is taking a popular path, albeit one without particularly widespread or bipartisan support.
Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo — Wash Post Obama Administration
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 -- In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- a ...