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Eo 13492 Guantanamo Review

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Executive Order 13492

Signed: Jan 22, 2009
Kind: Executive order
Document: 13492
Presidency: Barack Obama

Directed a review of Guantanamo detainees and ordered the facility closed as promptly as possible.

Why tracked

Ledger editorial note, not a Federal Register abstract.

Ordered review and closure planning for Guantanamo Bay detention; a defining early Obama national-security instrument.

Topics: national-security · detention · historical

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