this just in, from CNN....

[lagilman]

WASHINGTON (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.

Comments

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Great news! I was so happy when I heard that on the news yesterday. :)

[lagilman]

*blink* You heard it on the news yesterday when the orders were signed today? I want your newsreader!

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I said yesterday. I'm not as alert as I thought I was. *sheepish look*

I did a little Googling and realized what I heard yesterday was that he planned on signing those executive orders today. Hearing that we was going to to do that is what made me happy. (And I may have heard this morning and not last night)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

He's getting a good start on doing what we hired him to do (I do love a president who believes in follow-through on campaign promises). This is incredibly heartening.