Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site breaks the news — in the form of a memo, dated Thursday, from President Obama to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder* – directing that the terrorists being detained at Guantanamo Bay be transferred to a prison in Thomson, Ill. (the Thomson Correctional Center).

It’s an outrage. It will inevitably result in trained terrorists being released in the United States — bank on it. More to come on this.

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* Andrew’s site describes the document as “a leaked DOJ memo” from Holder to Gates. But, assuming it is authentic, it is clearly a memo from Obama to Holder and Gates — the constitutional powers relied on are those of the president, not the attorney general, and the memo gives directions to both Holder and Gates.(Holder has no power to order Gates to do anything — they are peers, and the Constitution vests all the executive power in the president, not members of the president’s cabinet.)

UPDATE: After speaking to a few people and reading some follow-up reporting (e.g., Allahpundit at Hot Air) about this, I think the following is true: (a) the memo is a draft prepared for the president by the Justice Department — it would not be unusual for the White House to have DOJ draft a presidential directive instructing cabinet officials on legal matters, especially if the directive will instruct the attorney general to take some action or another; and (b) the draft memo is authentic and represents the Obama administration’s current planning with regard to the Gitmo detainees. (ABC notes that an administration official said the memo “is a draft, predecisional document that lawyers at various agencies were drafting in preparation for a potential future announcement about where to house GTMO detainees.”)