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Obama Directs C.I.A. to Shut Guantánamo

Aerial View of Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON — President Obama signed 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.

I have to say this is great, if not entirely unexpected, news. I think Guantánamo has been a pretty unhelpfull situation in the ‘war on terror’ that has only served to help create a sense of injustice and fuel extremeism.