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Defend America on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:33:44 PM
Steny Hoyer: White House rethinking Guantanamo transfers
By
JAKE SHERMAN |
2/2/10 3:09 PM EST
The second-ranking House Democrat signaled Tuesday that the White
House is reconsidering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison
in northwest Illinois.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he agrees that the Obama
administration should reassess the plan to move terrorist suspects from
the Cuba military base to Thomson Correctional Facility in the state’s
northwest corner.
“I think the administration realizes that this is a difficult issue,”
Hoyer said, speaking at his weekly meeting with Capitol Hill reporters.
“And I think that they are assessing where they are and where they
think we ought to be, and I think that’s appropriate and I look forward
to discussing it with them.”
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