"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals"

Here's a cartoon that the Center for American Progress emailed me this morning.

Here's video of some of the important first steps of the repair work, posted by Jed just a few hours ago:

President Obama Signs Executive Orders
To Close Guantanamo, Forbid Torture

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• The title of this post is from Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.

• NYT article on the Executive Orders signed today.

• [Added] The executive orders are now available on whitehouse.gov.