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...Holder faces huge challenges and a ticking clock as the nation's top lawyer. The most urgent is how to implement President Barack Obama's decision to close the brig at Guant??namo in a year and try some 250 alleged terrorists who have been kept there indefinitely. Some of their cases are so sensitive that presenting evidence in open court could compromise national security. As details of Bush-era practices on rendition, torture and wiretapping become known, Holder will have to rewrite some of the most secret rules of engagement used by the U.S. against al-Qaeda while balancing...
...treatment met the legal definition of torture.' SUSAN CRAWFORD, who oversees military trials at Guant??namo Bay, on why she halted the case of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a suspected 9/11 mastermind...
...hard to show why terror suspects should be housed in Kansas.' SAM BROWNBACK, U.S. Senator, on the possible housing of Guant??namo detainees in his state, as Barack Obama prepares an order to shut down the prison...
...request demands proper consideration.' JULIA GILLARD, Australia's acting Prime Minister, after the Bush Administration appealed to let Guant??namo detainees resettle Down Under should the prison be shut down...
...Closing Down The Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guant??namo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guant??namo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality...