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freep.com - 10/24/2009

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra used a meeting of a House Intelligence subcommittee Thursday to demand that the Obama administration reveal any plans it has for closing the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and whether any terrorism suspects housed there could be moved to Michigan. ...

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