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Lawmakers claim administration opening door to Gitmo transfer with Illinois prison buy
Fox News / The Associated Press ^ | October 2, 2012

Posted on 10/02/2012 4:26:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama administration plans to buy an Illinois prison that at one point was considered for housing Guantanamo prisoners -- with Republican lawmakers now claiming the purchase would open the door for ultimately carrying out the Guantanamo transfer.

Administration officials, though, denied that they were looking for a new home for Guantanamo inmates. They insisted the decision to buy Thomson Correctional Center, an under-used state prison 150 miles west of Chicago, was a move to alleviate overcrowding and create jobs in the process...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; illinois; obama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I got this from illinoisprisontalk.org:

[Thomson cost $128 million to build in 2001. It was supposed to replace aging lockups around the state, but union workers at those prisons didn't want to move and state officials didn't have the backbone to make them. So Thomson sat mostly empty for a decade. It was declared surplus property in 2010, clearing the way for a sale.]

Obama is paying his home state of Illinois $165 million for 10-year-old prison that cost $128 million to build. And who knows how many millions will be required to renovate it? This is a scam.

http://www.illinoisprisontalk.org/index.php?topic=27753.0

21 posted on 10/02/2012 7:16:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

follow the money to the latest Obama slumlord bud who has figured out some way to ride this gravytrain, stinks of Axelrod and Rahm


22 posted on 10/02/2012 8:29:40 PM PDT by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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To: arrogantsob

How can Obama pay for anything that isn’t approved by the House of Representatives???

How many challenges to our Constitution are the Republicans going to stand for?


23 posted on 10/03/2012 9:32:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ryderann

That was my first thought as well.


24 posted on 10/03/2012 10:31:11 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eatl my dog!)
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To: ridesthemiles

On both counts you got me.

Is there a couple of hundred million bucks just lying around in the Executive branch’s petty cash?


25 posted on 10/03/2012 12:33:36 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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