A new video released by the American Civil Liberties Union this week features family members of 9/11 victims calling for federal trials of terrorism suspects. The families were interviewed before the   more...Obama administration announced today that certain Guantánamo detainees will be transferred to the U.S. for trial in federal court. The administration also said other detainees will be tried in the illegitimate military commissions.

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Michael Ratner: This decision is the death knell for Guantanamo

Most Americans have only seen Guantánamo detainees as one-dimensional caricatures. But a new American Civil Liberties Union video shows the full range of their lives before, during and after their   more...captivity. The video, "Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo," is part of an ACLU initiative against the practice of detention without due process that violates fundamental principles of American justice. Despite plans to close Guantánamo, the Obama administration has continued this unconstitutional practice.

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US government says it needs to change evidence against detainees before civilian court trials

abandoned, exploited, betrayed, all because it wasn't the right time in the electoral cycle.