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Donald Trump suggested in an interview Thursday that he might allow Americans accused of terrorism to be tried at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba.
"Well, I know that they want to try them in our regular court systems, and I don't like that at all, I don't like that at all," he told the Miami Herald. "I would say they could be tried there, that'll be fine."
Current federal law prohibits U.S. citizens from being tried in military tribunals. Of Guantanamo, Trump has previously suggested he would "load it up with bad dudes."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-suggests-he-might-try-americans-at-guantanamo-bay/
I await, with great curiosity, an explanation about how he didn't mean that US citizens would be deprived of their rights. Alternatively a defense of stripping us of our constitutional rights in the name of safety from accused terrorists is also welcome.
