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Obama to Bring Gitmo Detainees to US Courts, Associated Press Says

Posted Nov 10, 2008, 01:28 pm CST
By Martha Neil

In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation's criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and bring detainees who are not released here for trial.

While many of these detainees who aren't released presumably would be tried in a standard criminal court setting, "a third group of detainees—the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information—might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases," reports the Associated Press.

The article cites as its sources unnamed Obama advisers and Democrats who are involved in the… Continue reading...

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