It should not take nearly that long.
Only 40 prisoners remain at Guantánamo, after more than 700 were transferred out by Presidents Bush and Obama. Only 12 of those remaining less than a third are accused of engaging in or materially supporting terrorist activities.
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These men should be transferred to the United States for trial before our federal courts. They inflicted their evil in this country murdering innocent American citizens and this is where they should face justice. Our federal courts are fully capable of doing that. Since 9/11, more than 650 terrorist suspects have been successfully prosecuted in U.S. federal courts. Trying and punishing these men here does not threaten our national security. U.S. prisons currently hold more than 400 prisoners convicted of terrorist-related crimes, and no prison or locality has faced a terrorist threat as a result.