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Obama's orders to close Gitmo, overhaul interrogation

WASHINGTON - Moving to claim what he described as "the moral high ground," President Barack Obama took a series of steps yesterday to dismantle the most widely condemned components of the Bush administration's war on terror.

Obama issued executive orders to shutter the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp within a year, close the CIA's network of secret overseas prisons and end the agency's...

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