and is anyone still working on it? i should also mention that quietly, very quietly, a couple of weeks before the election in october, the obama administration decided to do an end-run around congress when it comes to that big empty prison in thompson, illinois. congress had been blocking the federal government from buying that empty prison for any purpose, just in case any purpose might include putting prisoners from guantanamo there. but on october 2nd, quietly the department of justice wrote a check to illinois for $165 million to buy that maximum security prison. that prison that once upon a time was going to be guantanamo north, and everybody thought that was a great idea. it isn t scheduled to be guantanamo north anymore. nothing is. but why couldn t it be? i mean, george w. bush does not admit that invading iraq was the wrong decision. but even he admitted along time ago that guantanamo was a mistake that should be shut down. why is it still open? joining us now is jonathan hafe