Obama to Shut Guantánamo Site and C.I.A. Prisons

New York Times by Mark Mazzetti, William Glaberson | Jan. 22, 2009 (News Report)

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 Guantánamo detention camp within a year, government officials said. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
3.9
 by Derek Hawkins - Jan. 22, 2009

This does an excellent job putting into context Obama's order to close Guantanamo and end secret detentions and coercive interrogation techniques. The authors go fairly deep into how the United States has treated detainees since the war on terrorism began, and show what will change -- and what could stay the same -- under Obama.

The exact number of suspects to have moved through the prisons is unknown, although Michael V. Hayden, the departing director of the agency, has in the past put the number at “fewer than 100.”

Unknown to who?! Sloppy writing here — sounds like a paraphrased quote from a government official.

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