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Executive Order 13492Active

Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Barack Obama
January 22, 2009
74 FR 4897

Summary

Ordered the review of all detentions at Guantanamo Bay and directed that the detention facility be closed within one year. The closure was never completed due to congressional opposition.

Topics

national securityGuantanamo Baydetaineeswar on terror