From USATODAY.com
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama was at Hillary Clinton's side Thursday after she took charge of the State Department amid cheering staffers on a day when foreign policy underscored everything, from the new president signing an order to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the announcement of new special envoys to deal with crises abroad.
"I believe with all of my heart that this is a new era for America," Secretary of State Clinton said to a raucous, cheering crowd of about 1,000 people in the main lobby of the department's headquarters.
Obama visited later in the day to emphasize his administration's commitment to diplomacy. Standing by her side in the ornate Ben Franklin Room, Clinton introduced former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, as a special envoy for the Middle East.
Former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke was announced as a special adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The posts are the first of several new special envoys the administration plans to create to deal with particularly vexing problems abroad.
Obama on Thursday formally ordered a re-evaluation of how terrorist suspects are treated by U.S. law, including a decision to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.
The question is, should suspected terrorists have the same rights as Americans? I'm split.
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