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Obama Administration to Announce Detainee Prosecutions
blogs.abcnews.com - 26 days ago
Obama Administration to Announce Detainee Prosecutions
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Within the next two weeks the Obama administration will begin to make public the names of detainees in Guantanamo Bay whom federal prosecutors plan on trying in U.S. civilian courts and which ones they will send to a military commission....

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ACS Blog — ... ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper also reports on his Political Punch blog that the administration will announce within the next couple of weeks "the names of detainees in Guantanamo Bay whom federal prosecutors plan on trying in U.S. civilian courts and which ones they will send to a military commission." In a recent ...

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