{"id":696329,"date":"2010-03-19T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:36:08","slug":"military-commissions-possible-for-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696329","title":{"rendered":"Military Commissions Possible For Detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO- In the state that may house some of the GITMO detainees, the U.S. Senator from Illinois says he not opposed to Military Commissions. &#8220;We clearly want to try these alleged terrorists in the best place where they are most likely to be prosecuted&#8221;, said Senator Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Military Commission Act, Military Commissions are used to prosecute enemy combatants who violate laws of war. Each Military Commission consists of a military judge and from five to twelve members depending on if it\u2019s a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The commissions still require proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, presumption of innocence, free representation by an independent military defense counsel with the option to retain a civilian defense counsel and suppression of statements obtained by torture. If \u00a0there is a finding of guilt by at least two-thirds of the members (Unanimous for a death sentence) the records of the trial must be reviewed by the Convening Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Durbin says that he has been briefed by discussions between the White House and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on talks to have the GITMO detainees brought before Military Commissions, rather then Federal Court. Watch Durbin&#8217;s comments here&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=on&#038;width=375&#038;height=212&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=BD9AE6E1EB52085099FDC8822C5E918B&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D14623&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3DBD9AE6E1EB52085099FDC8822C5E918B%7Cts%3D1269292609%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=f4554314371c211281011f8780ce0dd1\"><\/script><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO- In the state that may house some of the GITMO detainees, the U.S. Senator from Illinois says he not opposed to Military Commissions. &#8220;We clearly want to try these alleged terrorists in the best place where they are most likely to be prosecuted&#8221;, said Senator Dick Durbin. According to the Military Commission Act, Military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2V97","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797797,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696329\/revisions\/797797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}