If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up on closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing jihadists to American soil, think again. Two troubling developments on the Gitmo front should have every American on edge.
The first White House maneuver took place in October, while much of the public and the media were preoccupied with election news. On Oct. 2, Obama’s cash-strapped Illinois pals announced that the federal government bought out the Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois for $165 million. According to Watchdog.Org, a recent appraisal put the value of the facility at $220 million.
Democratic Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin led the lobbying campaign for the deal, along with Illinois Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn, who is overseeing an overall $43 billion state budget deficit and scraping for every available penny. The Thomson campus has been an empty Taj Mahal for more than a decade because profligate state officials had no money for operations. Economic development gurus (using the same phony math of federal stimulus peddlers) claim the newly federalized project will bring in $1 billion.
Sen. Durbin told a local Illinois paper that “the decision to move ahead came directly from President Barack Obama” and that he had secured the green light during a discussion on Air Force One earlier in the spring. But this gift to Obama’s Illinois homeboys wasn’t just a run-of-the-mill campaign favor.
Obama’s unilateral and unprecedented decision steamrolled over bipartisan congressional opposition to the purchase. That opposition dates back to 2009, when the White House first floated the idea of using Thomson to house jihadi enemy combatants detained in Cuba. As you may recall, the scheme caused a national uproar. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department’s budget, blocked the administration from using unspent DOJ funds for the deal. With bipartisan support, Congress passed a law barring the transfer of Gitmo detainees to Thomson or any other civilian prison.
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Well, put them on US soil, and in a year Obama will call their crimes something on the lines of workplace violence and be granted a presidential pardon on time already served. If they do bring them into the US, they need to be put into general population and let the prisoners carry out these jihadists executions.
There is nothing transparent or open about Obama. Maybe someday people who think he is the holy one will be able to see through his veil. This man and his brain dead administration of yes men have got to be see as what they really are….and what they are is not pretty, or healthy for our country!
Nothing congress does will ever stop the Boon from doing whatever he wants to do, So go home the Boon doesn`t want or need you anymore to be able to transform our country. Guys you just don`t count anymore. Sieg Heil! Dictator obama.
We don’t all get our way. Bad guys have to go where bad guys go.
I have never seen so many angry Americans complain about policy when they can be doing other things to improve their lives.
No president can afford to be completely transparent. There are national secrets. Do you want to know them? Run for office, contribute to our country.