Sunday, October 25, 2009

Getting Ready To Ship Guantanamo Detainees To U.S. Courts


Feds’ Plan to Prosecute 25 Guantanamo Detainees in US Courts Offers Catharsis – and Security Challenges. -- Newsweek

The Obama administration is developing plans to ship more than two dozen accused terrorists from Guantanamo to the United States so they can be placed on trial in four federal courts, according to two knowledgeable government officials, who asked not be be identified talking about the sensitive matter.

A Justice Department spokesman official emphasized there have been no final decisions about the fate of the detainees. The sources tell Newsweek there are still spirited internal debates within an administration task force, chaired by Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., about how many of them should be tried before military commissions -- as the Bush administration attempted to do—rather than civilian courts. But as a strong sign of the direction the process is moving, U.S. court security officials were told this week to start planning for the arrival of about 25 Guantanamo detainees for federal trials in four jurisdictions: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the District of Columbia and northern Virginia. A public announcement of the decision is expected to come by Nov. 16—the task force’s self imposed deadline—but could come earlier.

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My Comment: It only takes one juror to hang a jury. What happens if in one of these trials there is that one juror who does not believe that there is not enough evidence to convict.

The U.S. Justice Department seems cocky that all of these men are going to convicted .... hmmmm ..... I hope they are right.

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