President Obama Signs Order Closing Guantanamo Bay

President Obama Signs Order Closing Guantanamo Bay Detention Center within Year
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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* Newsweek.com brings us this report this Thursday morning and it starts off like this... President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects Thursday, signing orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, review military war crimes trials and ban the harshest interrogation methods... "We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms," Obama said as he signed three executive orders and a presidential directive in the Oval Office. Obama explained each order before he put his pen to them, in some cases reading them in full, and occasionally solicited input from White House counsel Greg Craig to make sure he was describing them correctly...
Read the full report HERE
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> FoxNews.com reports it this way...
President Obama, putting his executive pen in his left hand to overrule eight years of Bush administration policy, signed "several" executive orders Thursday, including ones affecting national security...
Read their report at link below...
Obama Issues Directives on Detainees, Interrogation, Guantanamo

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