President Barack Obama moved quickly Thursday to reshape U.S. national-security policy, ordering the

(22 Jan 2009) HEADLINE: Obama upends Bush, will close Guantanamo --------------------------------------- CAPTION: President Barack Obama moved quickly Thursday to reshape U.S. national-security policy, ordering the Guantanamo Bay prison camp closed within a year and forbidding the harshest treatment of terror suspects. (Jan. 22) ---------------------------------------- [Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ((Obama signing)) With a stroke of the pen, Barack Obama made good on a campaign pledge to erase what he's called a stain on America's honor... ((Guantanamo file footage)) ... ordering the Guantanamo Bay detention center closed inside a year. ((Back to Obama)) He says America can't sacrifice its core values just to fight terrorists. OBAMA SOT: We thank thit is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground. OBAMA SOT: We intend to win this fight. We are gonna win it on our terms. ((More Guantanamo file)) The Bush administration called Guantanamo inmates hardened killers. To U.S. allies, the camp in Cuba was a place of shame, where suspects were locked up and the key thrown way. ((Tribunals file footage)) But the new president has ALSO ordered a halt to war crimes tribunals ... ((More terror prisoners footage)) ... the shuttering of secret CIA prisons abroad ... ((Protesters simulating waterboarding)) ... and an end to harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, which critics call torture. BLAIR SOT: (10:45 a.m.) ''Torture is not moral, its not legal, its not effective." FONT: Retired Adm. Dennis Blair, Obama pick for intel chief ((Back to Guantanamo file)) Human rights groups were overjoyed. DASKAL SOT: (From APTN edit) "It is the beginning of the end to a failed system at attempted justice.." (FONT: Jennifer Daskal, spokeswoman, Human Rights Watch ((More Guantanamo file)) But closing Guantanamo won't be easy. Officials must decide which inmates to prosecute, transfer or release. CSIS ANALYST SOT: "There are ways to work through it. But it is not as simple as just releasing everybody on one single day." What about transfers to domestic prisons? GATES SOT: 2:15:30 "I've heard from members of Congress where all those prisons are located. Their enthusiasm is limited" (laughter) ((State Department walkin/wave)) The detainee orders came as Obama paid his first visit to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department -- and vowed to turn over a new leaf in U.S. diplomacy. OBAMA SOT: (25:40 from start of event) The inheritance of our young century demands a new era of American leadership. ((Standup close)) These moves by the president aim at a clean break with his predecessor's foreign policy and waging of the war on terror. He's hoping to improve America's image abroad, and win new allies in that war, without endangering national security. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...