Hoyer says jurors might enjoy Club Gitmo

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Washington Times:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Sunday the U.S. should consider holding military trials for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay and that American jurors might enjoy the taxpayer-funded trip to Cuba.

"Other juries are sequestered and it's a Caribbean island," Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" when asked by host Bob Schieffer about how to get jurors to the island. "It's not like it's the Archipelago or Siberia."

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Hey, some of the detainees like it and would prefer to stay there than go home. But trials there should be by military commissions as Congress provided.
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