By SHANE HARRIS
Calls are coming in for President-elect Obama to take quick and decisive action on interrogation and detention of terrorist suspects. Today, Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., who chairs an intelligence oversight panel, said that when Obama takes office in January, he should immediately issue an executive order to end the use of torture in interrogations.
As National Journal recently reported (subscription), Obama's administration will have to wrestle with a number of classified Justice Department legal opinions used by the Bush administration to support extraordinary interrogation methods, including waterboarding. It could take some time for Obama's attorney general to wade through all that paperwork, and the transition team probably still doesn't know precisely what the opinions authorized. But executive orders -- what Holt and others are calling for -- are a way for Obama to act without waiting to find out.
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