Posted on 12/22/2009 9:06:43 PM PST by Frankusa
Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.
As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest...
The administration appeared to take a major step forward last week when [Obama] directed subordinates to move “as expeditiously as possible” to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center, a nearly vacant maximum-security Illinois prison... But in interviews this week, officials estimated that it could take 8 to 10 months to install new fencing, towers etc... Such construction cannot begin until the federal government buys the prison from the State of Illinois.
The federal Bureau of Prisons does not have enough money to pay Illinois for the center...
Frustrated by the difficulties in obtaining financing from Congress, administration officials had discussed invoking a little-known statute that would allow the president to DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY and then use military funds allocated for other construction projects to buy and retrofit the Illinois prison...
Fearing that lawmakers would be angered by such a move and could respond by erasing the statute, the administration decided not to invoke it...
[It is also] not clear that Congress will be willing to approve money enabling the transfer of Guantánamo detainees to domestic soil — especially as the 2010 midterm election campaign heats up, with the likelihood that Republicans will pick up seats...
(Excerpt) Read more at obamareport.blogspot.com ...
I love these people, I’m so ready for the nightmare to end.
A National Emergency ... to get his way!
As he sees it! As his handlers see it!
It’s all about him! Evidenced by the “I’s” and “Me’s” in all his speeches.
anyone believe that if the Bush admin tried to buy a prison in rural Texas, down the road from his hometown, that the MSMsluts wouldn’t be howling in outrage about a no-bid favor to the hometown boys? forget just for a second what the Obamunists want to use this prison for, and the stupidity involved. But where’s the request-for-proposal process? Aren’t there any other rural prisons suitable for this? Was any other state given the oppurtunity to make a proposal?
You ask a lot of VERY WISE questions! I would love to hear the answers. (Crickets chirping **chirping)
Didn’t Swine flu get declared a national emergency?
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