Transfers Alone Won’t Close Guantanamo Bay

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The case against the men behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, for example, began in 2008 and has still not been resolved. The routine departure of judges or staff, as well as questions about whether evidence can be used if it was obtained using torture, continue to plague the process, said Karen Greenberg, the director of Fordham University School of Law’s Center on National Security.

“The challenge to the Biden administration is, ‘Can the military commissions begin to proceed in a way that looks like they have some momentum?’” Greenberg said. “The track record of the commissions has been so incredibly slow, it’s moved backwards.”