The damage from this first step alone will be enormous to our party in 2010: Key Democrats Would Let Guantanamo Detainees Be Tried in U.S.

From The Washington Post:

Key Democratic lawmakers agreed Wednesday to allow detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be transferred to the United States for trial, removing one of several hurdles the administration must clear to meet its January deadline for closing the military prison.

More than two dozen retired senior military officers, as well as several retired intelligence and law enforcement officials, sent a letter to President Obama and every member of Congress on Wednesday to warn that bringing detainees to the United States "would threaten national security and public safety."