{"id":694827,"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.com\/index\/694827","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":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UKT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}