Judge: Detainees no worse than gangs
Posted: December 18, 2009 at 4:29 a.m.
The chief judge of the federal court in Washington told lawyers Thursday that domestic street gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts.
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