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Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama?s Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama?s Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes By Spencer Ackerman 4/8/10 In an indication of the full-spectrum pressure that the Obama administration is facing on its plan to close Guantanamo Bay, today a coalition of major civil liberties groups ? the very groups that have led the charge to close the island detention facility since its 2002 inception ? sent a pained letter to Congress urging members to oppose the planned closure unless President Obama drastically modifies his approach. The Pentagon is seeking about $350 million in its Afghanistan funding authorization to buy the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois. According to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the plan to close Guantanamo in December, the facility will house detainees either convicted by military commissions or held in some form of indefinite detention without charge...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).