GITMO closure not so simple
One of the main concerns of the American people is not that the US Government undertook the detention of unlawful combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but that we have been so slow to adjudicate their cases in some type of fair system of justice that provides due process. The Obama Administration is discovering that just shutting it down is not so easy. Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray. What do you do with the detainees? Where do they go? How will we provide them with fair trials to determine their guilt or innocence? It seems that the full information for each detainee is spread throughout the Executive Branch in various agencies who have refused to fully share it. What little information we do have about them is that there are some very dangerous people there. There may, however, be some not so dangerous people who were merely in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some sort of fair judicial process should be used to make those determinations and either punish (by appropriate terms of confinement) or release these people.
Puckett & Faraj PC
Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj are criminal defense and general litigation attorneys and partners in the The Law Firm of Puckett and Faraj, PC. They have decades of trial experience defending those accused of criminal charges in federal and military courts-martial. Mr. Puckett and Mr. Faraj also represent clients in a variety of administrative hearings including Boards of Inquiry, Administrative Separation hearings, immigration removal hearings, Boards of Corrections of Military and Naval Records, Military Discharge Review Boards and National Security Clearance hearings, among others. Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj have also represented those who have been harmed or injured by the negligence, recklessness, or deliberate acts or failures of others.
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