this just in, from CNN....
Jan. 22nd, 2009 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanWASHINGTON (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 a year.
A second executive order formally bans torture by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terror interrogations. The order essentially ends the Bush administration's CIA program of enhanced interrogation methods.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/guantanamo.order/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
A damn good start. Also necessary, if anyone was to take him and his stated goals seriously.
A second executive order formally bans torture by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terror interrogations. The order essentially ends the Bush administration's CIA program of enhanced interrogation methods.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/guantanamo.order/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
A damn good start. Also necessary, if anyone was to take him and his stated goals seriously.
