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Obama Orders Secret Prisons and Detention Camps Closed
Author → Asif → in Politics → on Jan 22 2009 4:45PM
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How fitting that on inaugaration day, people like Dick Cheney is seen rolling himself out on a wheelchair. For too long has the American justice system handicapped by destructive policies of the Bush Administration. I say award detainees their due process. Treat them as prisoners of war and follow the Geneva conventions. If there isn't sufficient proof of conviction then send them back to where they were probably inhumanly captured. If they want to prosecute, then they must do so in a most legal, open, and transparent manner. The illegality of CIA prisons should have been declared by the Supreme Court a long time ago.
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President Obama signed executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year.
Saying that “our ideals give us the strength and moral high ground” to combat terrorism, President Obama signed executive orders Thursday ending the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret overseas prisons, banning coercive interrogation methods and closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year.
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