Obama To Shut Guantanamo, C.I.A. Prisons
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama is expected to sign executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year, government officials said.
The orders, which would be the first steps in undoing detention policies of former President George W. Bush, would rewrite American rules for the detention of terrorism suspects. They would require an immediate review of the 245 detainees still held at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine if they should be transferred, released or prosecuted.
Nytimes.com | MARK MAZZETTI and WILLIAM GLABERSON | January 22, 2009 09:04 AM