The US has successfully tried many alleged high level terrorists and Al-Qaeda operatives before and after 9/11. Yet the claim that closing Guantanamo and trying terror suspects in the United States is somehow a threat to national security has been voiced by many.

Today on GRITtv Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Army Lieutenant Col. David Vandeveld, a former military prosecutor at Guantanamo who resigned in September of last year and others discuss whether our criminal courts can handle terror suspects.

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