President elect Barack Obama talked about many different policies when he was campaining for president. But how many will actually go into place when he becomes president in 2009?
When Barack was campaigning he talked about how Guantanamo Bay was a “sad chapter in American history" AP reports that Obama's advisors are making a plan which to transfer some if not all of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for trial in the legal system. However moving these detainees may mean that the U.S. may have to make a new controversial system of justice. The Obama advisors defend this way of thinking by saying “We can’t put people in a dungeon forever without processing whether they deserve to be there.”
There is an issue here in whether the detainees should be shipped to the U.S. to be tried in the current legal system or if they should just stay in Guantanamo Bay. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has written about this topic and has provided some key information about how this would effect the current legal system. The actual removal would mean some detainees would go free while others would go into the American legal system. Critics have said that this would cost to much money to do and may entail long periods of time to try a single case. However there are also other detainees that have cases involving classified material related to National Security. These detainees would need a new special court specifically for dealing national security cases. This would also entail large ammounts of money and time in order to have a trial for everyone of the detainees.
Whatever your opinion is about Guantanamo Bay and its detainees it is almost guaranteed that Barack Obama will implement these new policies as soon as he enters office in 2009 as he has recently made the issue of closing the prison a top priority.
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