Some Gitmo Detainees May Come to US Jails.

[elleng]

Source: nyt/ap

The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to a prison in the United States despite strong congressional concerns.

Defense Department general counsel Jeh Charles Johnson told the House Armed Services Committee that some suspected terrorists might be transferred to the U.S. for prosecution and others sent to a facility inside the U.S. for long-term incarceration.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/25/us/politics/AP-US-Guantanamo-Detainees.html

[Hissyspit]

1. Oh, no! Scary dangerous people in our jails. This is unheard of!

[crickets]

2. And then what?

Are they ever going to see some sort of legal due process? Will they be in solitary for the rest of their lives, or will someone in the prison population take care of the 'problem' by offing the so-called terrorists? If there really are criminals or terrorists in this group, try them and get convictions, otherwise figure out some way to let them GO.

Government lawyers in both the Obama and Bush administrations say that an unspecified number of detainees they consider especially dangerous should continue to be held without trial. Some of the evidence against them is classified or thin, and the government fears these detainees could be released should they be given their day in court.

Is the evidence "classified" (they've been tortured to the point we can't put them on trial for fear of incriminating the govt past repair) or is it just "thin?" Throwing someone away in jail without a trial is wrong.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R