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STUART TAYLOR: President Obama and his national security team are wrestling with the question of what do we do with the 240-some detainees on Guantanamo who we inherited from the Bush administration, not to mention their counterparts in Afghanistan.
And there are by some calculations at least three groups at Guantanamo, 80-some at the most, maybe a handful, who could be prosecuted under ordinary criminal law standards either in military courts or in federal courts; 60-some by the administration -- the previous administration's calculations who are not so dangerous and could be released. But that would leave more than 100, perhaps many more than 100 who are deemed at least by the military, at least under the prior administration to be non-prosecutable because of various problems with evidence and standards of proof, and maybe they haven't even committed any crime, but too dangerous to release. And the hard question is, what do you do with that group, assuming they exist?
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