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“If all we’re doing is exporting Guantanamo to Thomson for purposes of military commissions and indefinite detention,” said one civil liberties advocate, “we’re very strongly opposed to that.”

“These are all still open issues,” said Lachelier. “There are so many moving parts.”

Among the objections from Congressional Republicans to transferring Guantanamo detainees from Cuba to Illinois is the fear that the prisoners will suddenly have many more rights by virtue of being on U.S. soil.
But is that true?
Actually, it’s not clear, Scott Silliman, a professor at Duke University Law School and director of the Center for Law, [...]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to be taking a page from civil liberties groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights, using similar arguments to denounce the Obama administration’s decision to move some Guantanamo detainees to a prison in Thomson, Illinois.
Calling it “the latest in a string of seriously misguided decisions related to the [...]

From a letter just sent to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano:
As the President has made clear, we will need to continue to detain some individuals currently held at the [...]

Conservative bloggers were abuzz over the weekend over a leaked memo that appeared to show President Obama has decided to send all Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.”
In fact, it turned out that the memo was a draft from the Justice Department prepared for the president, [...]

TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared earlier today on MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” alongside NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann and former Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) to discuss the proposal to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Thomson, Ill. Video after the jump.

David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, and former congressman/Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr are backing a proposal to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Illinois, as well as President Obama’s plan to try terrorism suspects in federal courts. The three conservatives have long been members [...]