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Obama Will Order Gitmo Closed Next Week
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
An executive order to close the U.S. military prison at
Guantanamo Bay is expected during President Obama's
first week on the job -- and possibly on his first day, the AP reports. ...
Obama To Close Gitmo On Day 1 ... Sort of
Riehl World View —
... Well, I guess that depends on what the meaning of "close" is. I can't believe the AP actually had the nerve to run this bit of Obama CYA for his base. Oh wait, what am I saying? The AP is partof Obama's base. Obama will immediately order Gitmo closed, ... eventually. Or something like that. Tom Maguire has more on President-elect ...
Hullabaloo — ... calls a "concentration camp." And on this day, Barack Obama's advisers are leaking that they will move to close it down by executive order immediately. ...
Gitmo Word Games
TalkLeft —
Today unnamed Obama advisors say Obama will order Guantanamo closed during his first week in office. Ordering Guantanamo's prison closed is not the same thing as closing it. There's no mention of a timetable. As noted yesterday, he said on ABC's This Week not to expect it during his first 100 days. When is a cigar not a cigar? Apparently, when it comes to closing Guantanamo. As the ACLU says in its latest press release on the anonymously-sourced promise: “While the news from unnamed ...
Obama Gets Ready To Close Gitmo: Will Prepare An Order
The Moderate Voice —
... The AP reports that President Elect Barack Obama is preparing an order to close the infamous Guantamo Bay U.S. military facility — a facility that has become a “high concept” symbol of the Bush administration’s use of torture: ...
Turning tides...
the talking dog —
... , a petition to which Candace was kind enough to let me make some suggestions. The current petition seeks the Supreme Court's intervention to compel the Government to turn over al-Ghizzawi's medical records so that an independent medical evaluation may be made, a requested that the Bush Administration has vehemently resisted (and the lower courts have denied). This comes the same day that it seems President-elect Obama wants us to know that he intends to sign an order closing Guantanamo Bay's detention facility early in his presidency , perhaps on the very first day. The ...
TOM MAGUIRE: Obama Continues The ‘Torture’ Backpedaling. On the other hand there’s this: “Adviser…
Instapundit —
... On the other hand there’s this: “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.” Not that these are entirely inconsistent . . . . ...
Closing Gitmo
Betsy's Page —
The Obama team is saying that he will close Guantanamo prison camp in an executive order as soon as he takes office. 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 â and possibly on his first day, according to two transition team advisers. Both spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Obama's order will direct his administration to figure out what to ...
Obama To Close Gitmo Whose Backyard Will They Go To
Rhymes With Right —
... Bay closed even though he has no idea where to put these terrorists. 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 possibly on his first day, according to two transition team advisers. Both spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Obama's order will direct his administration to figure out what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban ...
ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out —
... Close Gitmo on the first day in office? First week? First 100 days? Well, technically, he may only issue an order to do it soon, but it’s ...
