Does bringing Guantanamo Bay Prisoners to the U.S. guarantee them the right to a speedy trial?

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:58:03 -0400

Sixtyfour prisioners at Guantanamo bay have been deemed to dangerous to release. There is a plan in place to bring them to Supermax here in the U.S. They have been held for more than 10 years without a charge or trial. U.S. courts have already ruled they do have jurisdiction over prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Will bringing them onto U.S. soil guarantee them the right to a speedy trial? In 2001 the U.S. Supreme court ruled detainees without a country to go to, could not be held indefinitely http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/26/some-guantanamo-inmates-would-go-to-u-s-under-new-plan-obama-a/21214189/

Some Guantanamo inmates would go to US under new plan: Obama aide

Response by COL Charles Williams made Jul 27 at 2015 1:02 AM

COL Charles Williams — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:02:40 -0400

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Jul 27 at 2015 7:32 AM

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:32:15 -0400

It will "potentially" change the oversight parameters.

As it stands now, the oversight is almost exclusively weighted on the Government's side. Not just the Executive, but the Judicial as well. Shifting the prisoners to the US will give them grater access to their legal teams, and much larger legal teams.

If you isolate them in Cuba, only so many people have the resources to assist them in a meaningful way. If they are in the US, the number of players on the field increases dramatically, and this becomes a much more "fair fight."

Before anyone goes after me about these guys being Terrorists, etc. They're Prisoners, Detainees, etc. When we took them into custody, we chose to use our Justice System. WE made that decision. We tried to bypass by having a prison in an extra-jurisdictional space, which I personally think the Framers would would have had aneurysms over. They wrote so many Protections regarding Legal Issues because of a Tyrant, and if you were to read what WE did, there are marked similarities. "But this is war" doesn't cut it.

We either have a case against these guys or we don't. That's supposed to be how our system works. If we don't, we screwed the pooch. If we do, put them on trial, convict them, and lock them up forever.

Response by SGT Ben Keen made Jul 27 at 2015 8:51 AM

SGT Ben Keen — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:51:17 -0400

Are these people who have been labeled as "terrorist" deserving of the protection given under a speedy trial? I understand the point of giving them their day in court but these aren't your run of the mill criminals. These are people that many of us here, pulled off the battlefield. Most of these men, if released, will undoubtedly find their way back onto that battlefield.

And to serve as a follow up, where is the DoJ going to put these guys? We can barely house the criminals already in the state-side system let alone adding these guys to it.