Guantanamo

Obama's 2013 Budget Gives Up On 'Gitmo North' Proposal

Ryan J. Reilly | February 13, 2012, 3:20PM

It took 20 words for the Obama administration to give up on its proposal to renovate an Illinois prison to render it capable of holding terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

"The proposed Administrative USP Thomson, IL project was removed as funding was not provided in the FY 2011 Enacted Appropriation," the administration said in their 2013 budget proposal for building and facilities expenses from DOJ's Bureau of Prisons.

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