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"Republicans got mad if they went to NYC"???First of all, it was not just Republicans who got mad about that, and additionally, it was the Democratically controlled House which passed a bill banning detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the U.S. for trials in criminal courts.That said, this idea that "we can try them" has been flatly rejected by the Obama Administration as well, so that option is already off the table. Defense Secretary Gates stated in 2009 that there were "50 to 100 [detainees] probably in that ballpark who we cannot release and cannot trust, either in Article 3 [civilian] courts or military commissions."That is a pretty clear statement that trials are not an option for many who remain at GITMO. I can agree with you that we might be able to try some of them in military commissions (especially given evidence rules and language used to define interrogation techniques etc), but it is simply not plausible to try them all, and therefore GITMO would remain open regardless of trials.
"Republicans got mad if they went to NYC"???
First of all, it was not just Republicans who got mad about that, and additionally, it was the Democratically controlled House which passed a bill banning detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the U.S. for trials in criminal courts.
That said, this idea that "we can try them" has been flatly rejected by the Obama Administration as well, so that option is already off the table. Defense Secretary Gates stated in 2009 that there were "50 to 100 [detainees] probably in that ballpark who we cannot release and cannot trust, either in Article 3 [civilian] courts or military commissions."
That is a pretty clear statement that trials are not an option for many who remain at GITMO.
I can agree with you that we might be able to try some of them in military commissions (especially given evidence rules and language used to define interrogation techniques etc), but it is simply not plausible to try them all, and therefore GITMO would remain open regardless of trials.
