{"id":443298,"date":"2010-03-18T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.33047"},"modified":"2010-03-18T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:23:23","slug":"obama-white-house-reaffirms-thomson-purchase-for-guantanamo-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443298","title":{"rendered":"Obama White House reaffirms Thomson purchase for Guantanamo detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWASHINGTON&#8211;If there was any doubt&#8211;the Obama White House reaffirmed Thursday plans to buy a near empty state prison in Thomson, Ill, whether or not terrorists will be transferred there from Guantanamo Bay military prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration&#8217;s Justice Departmant &#8220;would be seeking to purchase the facility in Thomson even if detainees were not being considered for transfer there,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch wrote in a letter to Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.). <br \/>\nHowever, Welch said the facility is being acquired &#8220;to fulfill both of the goals of reducing federal prison overcrowding and transferring a limited number of detainees out of Guantanamo.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thomson is in Manzullo&#8217;s district and the lawmaker has been trying to convince the Obama White House to buy Thomson to house just high security federal prisoners&#8211;not Guantanamo detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department request for $237 million to buy, activate and operate Thomson is in the fiscal 2011 budget now pending before Congress.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomson is in Manzullo&#8217;s district and the lawmaker has been trying to convince the Obama White House to buy Thomson to house just high security federal prisoners&#8211;not Guantanamo detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department request for $237 million to buy, activate and operate Thomson is in the fiscal 2011 budget now pending before Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;If there was any doubt&#8211;the Obama White House reaffirmed Thursday plans to buy a near empty state prison in Thomson, Ill, whether or not terrorists will be transferred there from Guantanamo Bay military prison. The Obama administration&#8217;s Justice Departmant &#8220;would be seeking to purchase the facility in Thomson even if detainees were not being considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}