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...those who have long advocated - and agitated for - the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, today is a day to savor. Keeping his campaign promise, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order to shut down the prison within a year and to halt the use of controversial interrogation techniques. "The message that we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly," Obama said at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. "We are going...
...Cardozo School of Law and former counsel on detainee issues to the State Department. How long could it take? Experts consulted by TIME say there's a good chance there will still be some detainees at the prison deep into 2009, and possibly into 2010. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...Changing policy priorities in Latin America shouldn't be that tall an order. Nor should the more symbolic gestures - like Obama's plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo or lift Bush's draconian restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba - which mean a lot in a region where Monroe Doctrine is a dirty term. If Obama demonstrates that he's more interested in helping Haiti with green-energy projects like jatropha-seed oil than he is in making Bolivia eradicate more and more coca bushes, or more committed to steering U.S. aid toward...
...have to deal with early in her tenure. Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican and a mentor of sorts to Obama, is particularly interested in containing Russia's bad behavior in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Democrats will ask Clinton about plans to withdraw from Iraq, close Guantánamo Bay and boost troop levels in Afghanistan. Junior Republicans, like Lisa Murkowski, will ask about regional issues, like the U.S.'s role in the Arctic...
...pictures from inside Guantánamo...