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• Obama Brings the Gitmolympics Home

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  President Obamas hometown cronies lost their bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to the Windy City. But this week they got a consolation prize: the Gitmolympics. On Tuesday, the White House went public with its official plans to purchase the Thomson Correctional Facility from financially strapped Illinois to house ...
  5 hours ago

• Is Obama closing or just moving Guantanamo?

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 549
  On Tuesday President Obama outlined his future plans for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It includes acquiring the Thomson Correctional Center in Carroll County in the US State of Illinois and transferring less than 100 of the 210 detainees there.Obama’s plan was a move to make good on his promise to close the ...
  6 hours ago

• Batchelor: GITMO North

  
  RBO — Authority: 527
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Kryptonite GITMO North is the Obama administration’s solution to a facile campaign promise that grew into a burden this last year of having no answers where to put the last of the rascals from GITMO South. State after state turned aside the White House beseechments. [...]
  7 hours ago

• Presidential Memorandum Thomson Prison To House Guantanamo Prisoners

  
  Obama-Mamas.com — Authority: 127
  MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBJECT: Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center to Facilitate Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base By the authority vested in me as President and as Commander in Chief of the Armed ...
  9 hours ago

• Are you ready for Gitmo, Illinois?

  
  My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. — Authority: 435
  Question: What happens when you make a bunch of stupid campaign promises to the left wing of the Dem party? Answer: Youd better be prepared to fulfill them! We hear that Pres BO is going to move some detainees to a prison west of Chicago. Why move dangerous people? Again, its all about keeping the disillusioned ...
  11 hours ago

• Local Congressman Mark Kirk On Illinois GITMO /

  
  Chicagoray's Views and News — Authority: 533
  My congressman Kirk comments on the Obama plan to move apparently only 75 of these terrorists into the state, and also sheds some light on the particulars of the plan that the dems arent making too well known. Like perhaps no one in the vicinity wants the thing, and to think the state "needs the jobs" and this is how ...
  13 hours ago

• NewsBusted: Why Send Gitmo Terrorists to Illinois?

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 744
  In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Gitmo Terrorists, President Obama, Stimulus Package, United Nations, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Nobel Peace Prize, Ashton Kutcher, Obama Cardboard Cutout, Sarah Palin, Rachel Maddow, and Madonna.
  14 hours ago

• Guantanamo Detainees Will Go to Illinois

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 570
  Did you think they would go anywhere else ? I thought for a few minutes that They were going to Michigan ,about an hour North Of my Home ! But then , In stepped Illinois , Home State of the Obamasiah ! And everything changed . Now these Al Qaida Pussies are Coming to America ! And Being as it is A Federal ...
  15 hours ago

• Some Gitmo detainees will end up in Illinois

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Gitmo prisoners to transfer to Thomson Pen in Illinois.
  16 hours ago

• Gov Quinn/Sen Durbin praise decision re: Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Presidential memo re: ThomsonLetter from defense team to Gov QuinnNote that the alleged 3000 jobs created are not all going to be local hires and a large percentage will be going to the military for security purposes.Couldn’t find a comment from Rep Kirk as yet. Also noteworthy, Sen Roland Burris ...
  16 hours ago

• VIDEO- Ed Schultz nails Rep. Joe Bartons flawed talking points re: Supermax prison

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 673
  By GottaLaff Ed stymied Not Joe Lieberman, and he went all deer in the headlights. Talking points much, Other Joe? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, explains why many GOP members of Congress oppose the Obama administration’s decision ...
  16 hours ago

• Letter from defense team to Gov Quinn re: Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Presidential memo re: ThomsonJoint statement from Gov Quinn/Sen DurbinLetter to Gov Pat Quinn from the Secy of State, Secy of Defense, Secy of Homeland Security, Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General concerning the acquisition of Thomson Correctional Center to house federal ...
  16 hours ago

• POTUS Memo re: Thomson Correctional Center

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Letter from defense team to Gov QuinnJoint statement from Gov Quinn/Sen DurbinPOTUS MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSETHE ATTORNEY GENERALSUBJECT: Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center to Facilitate Closure of Detention Facilities at ...
  17 hours ago

• Changing GITMO’s Address, Doesn’t Change Terrorists Motives

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  The same people who have brought you 10 percent unemployment, government run health care and a national energy tax are now attempting to bequeath you with another unwanted holiday gift.  This time, however, the stakes are even higher as they want to bring terrorists to US soil. The White House has just announced ...
  18 hours ago

• Gitmo, Illinois

  
  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union — Authority: 138
  Today, President Obama ordered the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center , a maximum security prison in northwestern Illinois, and the new home for a "limited number" of detainees currently held at Guantánamo Bay. This sounds like a good thing—weve been advocating for the closure of ...
  18 hours ago

• Presidents Gitmo Decision Puts "International Public Relations Ahead of Public Safety"

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 553
  Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the presidents reported plan to transfer certain terrorists held at ...
  19 hours ago

• NRO slams Gitmo North

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 585
  All Gitmo North, all of the time. Here is what the editors of National Review Online say about moving 100 Guantanamo Bay terrorists to the Thomson Correctional Center. This exorbitant "injection" of funds would be necessary because TCC is not ready to accommodate international jihadists, who are prone to riot, ...
  19 hours ago

• Ryan Wants Hearings on Illinois "Gitmo North"

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 552
  Its a done deal: Barack Obama has given the order to move "a limited number of terror suspects" from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ("Gitmo") to the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and others have touted this as a great economic boon to Thomson . Think of the health care ...
  19 hours ago

• Supreme Court rules torture is a ‘foreseeable consequence’

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 673
  By GottaLaff I usually face challenges, feelings, and events that bother me head on, because by avoiding confrontation, I feel like I avoid the ability to affect change. But once in awhile, I become so emotionally overwhelmed by something I read or hear that I have to step away for a minute. Sometimes its the ...
  19 hours ago

• Welcome to Gitmo, Illinois

  
  Thomas Jefferson Club Blog — Authority: 136
  President Obama promised to close down the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay and found it more difficult to accomplish than expected. He delayed the closing until he could decide where to move the inmates being held there. He is now slowly finding a new home for those inmates. The federal government bought the ...
  19 hours ago

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