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The movement worked hard to elect Barack Obama president and win Democratic Congress in the hope of new possibilities for law reform, health care, immigration reform, and end to Iraq war. ..

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Congress grounded the Guantanamo military commissions in law in 2006. . . . . . ... Obama eliminated the CIA's separate interrogation regime. Congress should go a step further and explicitly bind the CIA's adherence to established and lawful techniques. ..

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When Obama took office in January 2009, however, Congress’s attitude changed.  Many members of Congress reacted negatively to Obama’s stated goal of closing Guantanamo, and, since that time, Congress has imposed various ever tighter restrictions on the release..

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