Will Obama Bring Guantanamo Bay to the U.S.?

By Hugh Hewitt

President-elect Obama's legal team is exploring quick steps to shut down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and bring the prisoners to the U.S. where they will be integrated into the U.S. prison system and possibly into our criminal justice system as well. In fact, Congress has not acted in response to the Supreme Court decision of last year that extended habeas corpus rights to the Gitmo detainees, and the legal status of the military tribunals and the prisoners remains hotly contested in the federal courts.

We don't know where the courts will end their reviews of the unlawful combatants legal status, but we are certain that bringing these suspected killers to the U.S. is a very bad idea. We urge the president-elect to abandon his electioneering sloganeering and instead focus on the perils of importing even prisoners who are terrorists into the United States.