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Gitmo Prisoners Will Be Transferred To The U.S. For Prosecution

Jillian Bandes
Jillian Bandes  |  October 15, 2009 2:32 PM
The House just voted 224-193. They will only be transferred here to be prosecuted. In other words, they won't stay here to be interred for their entire sentence.

Democrats had resolved to put the prisoners on trial at Gitmo earlier, but later deemed it politically safe to reverse that vote.