Todays Independent reports...

'As one of his first acts in the White House, Barack Obama is preparing to move hundreds of detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to the US where they will be given legal hearings, trials or face yet-to-be-established special terrorist courts.

Mr Obama has a long-standing commitment to shut down Guantanamo, which has become a symbol of injustice for human rights campaigners, and a lightning rod for anti-US criticism since it opened eight years ago. Closing the prison, which is on a part of Cuba leased to the US, will bring to an end one of the most poisonous legacies of the Bush administration '

However, 'some Democrats and many human rights advocates argue for a return to the pre-9/11 use of criminal courts for trying suspected terrorists.

They are wary of Obama's following in the steps of Bush by creating another legal process outside of the courts.

"All this talk of a special 'hybrid court' is a solution looking for a problem," said Eric Freedman, a Hofstra University constitutional law professor.

"There is absolutely nothing that the United States government would want to achieve in this area that it could not achieve in the tried and true U.S. justice system," he said.

Roll on!