Litigation

Deal Near on Closing Gitmo, Trying Detainees?

By Peter Hardin

A national security deal between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators is getting closer. The deal would close the Guantanamo Bay military prison and try more terror suspects before military tribunals, according to a Wall Street Journal article.

If the deal goes forward, accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators would be tried before revamped military tribunals instead of in civilian court, as the Obama administration previously planned. It would represent the reversal of a key Obama administration security plank.

To learn more about the debate over civilian courts versus military commissions for trying terror detainees, click here for Gavel Grab.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).