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• Surber: Obama Must Reconsider Closing GITMO

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 140
  In a worth-reading post yesterday on his blog at the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, Don Surber wrote that President Barack Obama cannot ignore recent events involving terrorism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and that the former Illinois senator must reconsider his decision to move detainees (a.k.a., ...
  3 days ago

• Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 141
  My Way News (AP) , “ Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 ” by Larry Margasak Obama originally said Guantanamo would close Jan. 22, 2010. While that date proved unrealistic, the president has directed administration officials to move quickly to acquire the maximum-security prison in Illinois. ...
  4 days ago

• Body of missing Maryland girl found in woods (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  AP – The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was found Friday in a wooded area near the Delaware state line after thousands of volunteers spent Christmas searching for her. See original here:  (AP)"> (AP)">Body of missing Maryland girl found in ...
  5 days ago

• Body of missing Maryland girl found in woods (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 472
  AP – The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was … See the article here: (AP)"> (AP)">Body of missing Maryland girl found in woods (AP)
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• Ponzi king Madoff shifted to prison medical facility

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  North Carolina, Dec 24(ANI): Ponzi king Bernie Madoff, who has been jailed for a 65 billion dollars fraud, has been reportedly shifted to a prison medical facility after complaining of a “fluttery feeling around his heart”.It is also believed that Madoff also had high blood pressure and reported some ...
  6 days ago

• About that moving Gitmo to Illinois…

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money : While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for closing the prison that he set shortly after taking office, the administration appeared to take a major step forward last week when he directed subordinates to move “as ...
  1 week ago

• Gitmo Stays Open For Another Year

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 125
  As Congress balks at funding Gitmo North, this political soap opera continues: 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Gitmo Not Likely to Close Till 2011 at the Earliest

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  We’d already set aside the January 2010 deadline for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay that President Obama set on his first day in office. But now the administration is acknowledging that it probably won’t close the prison down until 2011 — at the earliest. While funding is the most immediate ...
  1 week ago

• Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Transfer Delayed

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 743
  President Barack Obama made waves just after taking office when he announced his administration’s intent to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba by Jan. 22, 2010, but it looks as if he’s going to miss that deadline. The president and his sidekicks in the federal Bureau of Prisons had been looking to ...
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• Closing Guantanamo Costs Money; But There Is an Alternative

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, two senior officials held a conference call to tell reporters how the plan would work. Before Guantanamo could be closed, they said, the ...
  1 week ago

• Were Closing Gitmo to Save the Taxpayer Money!

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 588
  Team Obama has maxed out mommys credit card and doesnt have the cash to purchase Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois. When approached with the idea of adding $200 million to the military appropriations bill to fund the endeavor, Congress balked. The New York Times reports: Still, it is not clear that ...
  1 week ago

• Plan to Move Guantanamo Detainees Hits Funding Roadblock

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 789
  Filed under: House , Democrats , Budget , Obama Administration A plan to move the some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to an underutilized correctional facility in Illinois hit an unexpected roadblock when Congress refused to allocate funds for purchasing the prison, the New York Times reports. Without ...
  1 week ago

• T.I. Is Home From Jail…Kinda!

  
  the.LIFE Files - "Welcome To Exclusiveness" — Authority: 576
  (Not actual release photo) Reports are surfacing that after serving 7 months in an Arkansas federal prison – rapper T.I. is back in Atlanta and will finish the rest of his sentence at the Dismas Charities Atlanta West correctional center in Georgia. He will be officially be released three months from then in ...
  1 week ago

• Michigan prison to house Penn. inmates

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 606
  It’s not the Standish prison, but a prison in Muskegon County is going to stay open because of an agreement to transfer 1,000 inmates there from Pennsylvania’s overcrowded prisons. The Detroit News reports: Pennsylvania’s decision will save about 200 jobs at Muskegon Correctional Facility, which the state ...
  1 week ago

• Experience Necessary: After the Funeral Home, a Venture Into Antiques

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Sanford L. Smith is a former funeral director who now plans antiques shows and antiquarian book fairs.
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• Gitmo: 12 detainees set free

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 149
  December 20, 2009Guantanamo Bay has 12 less terrorists. They were sent to their nation of origin as a Christmas present. We in Illinois get ours – up to 100 – soon enough.The DOJ was ordered by barry to evaluate each case as far as threat and possibility of a successful prosecution. These 12 must have [...]
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• SacBee: California prison guards union ends consulting contract with ex-president Novey

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 152
  By Dan Smith and Jon Ortiz smith@sacbee.com Published: Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 4A The union that represents 30,000 correctional officers in California has ended its consulting contract with Don Novey, the one-time president of the organization credited with building its political muscle. In an ...
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• Guantanamo Bay Detainees To Move To Illinois

  
  Dreadnaught — Authority: 109
  The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation amemo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama’s order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in ...
  1 week ago

• 210 - 6 = 204

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 588
  New this morning is that six of the Yemeni detainees at Gitmo will be released to their home country and the Washington Post reports that this is "a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen, according to sources with independent knowledge of the matter." Nearly one hundred ...
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• Latte Links (12/17)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 137
  Some miscellaneous items from around the web that I encourage you to check out. Real Clear Politics: FL Sen Poll: Crist-Rubio Tied (HT: Backyard Conservative ) The Huffington Post: Dissolving the Palin Prejudice (I’m still shocked by a fair review of Going Rogue being posted on HuffPo, but here you ...
  1 week ago

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