Obama orders Gitmo closed

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January 22, 2009

President Barack Obama today signed his first executive order, ordering that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be closed within one year. A senior administration official says the first step will be to determine which detainees “can be transferred as rapidly as possible to countries that would receive them.” He also ordered the CIA to close any detention center that it is operating anywhere, the administration official says. And he ordered that all interrogations follow the rules laid out in the Army Field Manual, which would prohibit many techniques used by the Bush administration.

Posted by Steve Thomma at Jan 22, 2009 12:12:46 PM in Barack Obama, CIA, Guantanamo | Permalink

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