11/12/08- TWD's Agenda For The Day: Gitmo Going Down

Photo from Brennan Linsley of Associated Press

On the verge of fulfilling an important promise.

The Obama administration will launch a review of the classified files of the approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay immediately after taking office, as part of an intensive effort to close the U.S. prison in Cuba, according to people who advised the campaign on detainee issues.

There is still work to be done however:

Although as a candidate Obama publicly expressed his desire to close the detention facility, his transition team stressed this week that the president-elect has not assembled his national security and legal team and that no decisions have been made "about where and how to try the detainees," Denis McDonough, an Obama foreign policy adviser, said in a statement issued Monday.

Nevertheless, the ACLU and many others are happy about this:

The Agenda's Pending Schedule will be in the comments section, as usual.