17 December 2009

[Federal Register: December 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 241)]
[Presidential Documents]               
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Part III





The President





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Memorandum of December 15, 2009--Directing Certain Actions With Respect 
to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center To Facilitate 
Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base


                        Presidential Documents 




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Title 3--
The President

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                Memorandum of December 15, 2009

 
                Directing Certain Actions With Respect to 
                Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center To 
                Facilitate Closure of Detention Facilities at 
                Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense [and] the 
                Attorney General

                By the authority vested in me as President and as 
                Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United 
                States by the Constitution and the laws of the United 
                States of America, including the Authorization for Use 
                of Military Force (Public Law 107-40, 115 Stat. 224), 
                and in order to facilitate the closure of detention 
                facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, I hereby 
                direct that the following actions be taken as 
                expeditiously as possible with respect to the facility 
                known as the Thomson Correctional Center (TCC) in 
                Thomson, Illinois:

                1. The Attorney General shall acquire and activate the 
                TCC as a United States Penitentiary, which the Attorney 
                General has determined would reduce the Bureau of 
                Prisons' shortage of high security, maximum custody 
                cell space and could be used for other appropriate 
                inmate or detainee management purposes. The Attorney 
                General shall also provide to the Department of Defense 
                a sufficient portion of the TCC to serve as a detention 
                facility to be operated by the Department of Defense in 
                order to accommodate the relocation of detainees by the 
                Secretary of Defense in accordance with paragraph 2 of 
                this memorandum.

                2. The Secretary of Defense, working in consultation 
                with the Attorney General, shall prepare the TCC for 
                secure housing of detainees currently held at the 
                Guantanamo Bay Naval Base who have been or will be 
                designated for relocation, and shall relocate such 
                detainees to the TCC, consistent with laws related to 
                Guantanamo detainees and the findings in, and 
                interagency Review established by, Executive Order 
                13492 of January 22, 2009.

                This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.

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                The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to 
                publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 15, 2009

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