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                        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.

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                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.

                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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