Pentagon is Dividing Up Guantanamo Detainees for Trials

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Source: Miami Herald

Pentagon is dividing up Guantanamo detainees for trials

By Carol Rosenberg | The Miami Herald

The Obama administration is still deciding where to stage the 9/11 mass murder trials of five alleged co-conspirators now held at Guantánamo, the Defense Department’s top lawyer told Congress on Thursday.

Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson urged the House Armed Services Committee to allow both civilian courts as well as military commissions to prosecute the detainees at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.

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But the focus was the Republican draft legislation that would further thwart Obama’s efforts to close the detention center in southeast Cuba. It also would give the defense secretary rather than the attorney general final say on keeping a detainee in military custody. The bill imposes such tough requirements on transfers of the last Guantánamo captives that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he might not be able to approve any release.

“They turn Guantánamo Bay into the Hotel California,” said the top Democrat on the committee, Washington Rep. Adam Smith. “You can check out any time you want but you can never leave.”

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/18/110655/pentagon-is-dividing-up-guantanamo.html

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1. Is it a league system ?

:sarcasm:

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2. Interesting word, stage.

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4. Indeed. I wonder when we'll have a president who isn't a war criminal.

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