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PRESIDENT OBAMA: ACTIONS IN OFFICE

  • Signed executive orders to ban torture and close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year
  • His administration is reviewing policy options on holding and trying terrorism suspects
  • Announced in February that he plans to send 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan
  • His administration is currently conducting an Afghanistan strategy review
  • Has conducted some cross-border strikes against al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan
CANDIDATE OBAMA
ELECTION 2008

  • Supported banning torture for both the CIA and the military
  • Proposed closing the Guantanamo Bay prison and trying detainees in civilian courts
  • Opposed President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, but supported the FISA compromise that expanded legal methods of wiretapping
  • Supported adding 7,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan by moving some out of Iraq
  • Supported cross-border strikes against al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan
REPUBLICANS
IN CONGRESS

  • Most oppose closing the Guantanamo Bay prison
  • Most support allowing the intelligence agencies to use harsher interrogation techniques than military can
  • Nearly all supported the FISA compromise that expanded legal methods of wiretapping and gave retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with past warrantless wiretapping
  • Most support Pres. Obama's plan to deploy 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan
DEMOCRATS
IN CONGRESS

  • Most support closing the Guantanamo Bay prison
  • Most support restricting the use of torture in interrogation for both the CIA and military
  • Split on FISA compromise's provision giving retroactive immunity to telecom companies that had cooperated with warrantless wiretapping
  • Most support Pres. Obama's plan to deploy 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan

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