Barack Obama has described Guantanamo Bay the reviled detention camp at the US naval base in Cuba. as a "sad chapter in American history."
Now the US president-elect is said to be working towards closing down the camp.
His advisers say they're currently mapping out plans to send detainees to the US to face trial.
Under the proposal some captives would be released and others would be prosecuted in US courts receiving constitutional rights and open trials. But some say this is easier said than done.
[Interview : Glenn Sulmasy, Harvard University National Security Fellow] "The problem would be in a presumptively open courtroom, with no conditions otherwise, we would have CIA operatives providing testimony, we would have potential intelligence activities, operations being revealed unnecessarily, where we wouldn't necessarily have to do that."
Evidence obtained through military interrogation or intelligence sources might not be able to be used in federal court.
Detainees would also have the right to confront witnesses such as undercover agents which would inevitably jeopardize their cover and reveal classified information.
Obama's advisers say a new court designed specifically to handle sensitive national security cases might be needed.
Although the president-elect has yet to make a decision on how to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay a senior foreign policy adviser says Obama is committed to closing down the camp.
Guantanamo has held more than 700 captives since opening in 2002 with many of the around 250 men currently detained being cleared for release but without a country willing to take them.
Ahn Jisu, Arirang News.
NOV 12, 2008
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