Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Q. Should the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed? If so, where should the detainees be transferred? Should the inmates be tried by military commissions or civilian courts?


A. Guantanamo Bay should not be closed and the prisoners there should not be transferred to the United States and specifically not to the state of Illinois. The individuals being held there are enemy combatants and should be tried in military tribunals, not civilian courts.