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Anyone in the world In a major national-security speech Thursday, Obama tried to convince Americans that he will be tough on terrorists, but he failed to persuade lawmakers to give him the money to close the Guantanamo prison, and he deeply disappointed human rights groups, who heard a different message from the one last year from candidate Obama.Obama said that while most detainees could be dealt with in civilian courts, military commissions or transfers to other countries, some probably couldn't be tried because the evidence against them was inadmissible in court, having been obtained through illegal methods. |