New Detainee Rights Weighed in Plans to Close Guantánamo

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Source: NYTimes

WILLIAM GLABERSON

Administration officials are considering granting Guantánamo detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population to the United States, according to officials involved in the discussions.

One proposal that is being widely discussed in the administration would overhaul the procedure for determining whether detainees are properly held by granting them legal representation at detention hearings and by giving federal judges, not military officers, the power to decide whether suspects should be held.

Although the Bush administration has long defended the legal protections afforded detainees at Guantánamo against strenuous criticism, some officials now say that moving them to American soil would require giving them enhanced protections.

“If you were to bring them to the United States, there is a recognition that for policy reasons you would need even more robust procedures than those currently at Guantánamo,” one senior official involved in the discussions said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no decisions have been made.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/us/nationalspecial3/04gitmo.html?hp

[DCKit]

1. Aren't our bases, like our embassies, considered American soil? nt

[Solly Mack]

2. the chickenshits

they know the end is coming...the fucking war criminals...attempting to cover their ass now