Money hole - Obama won't divulge cost of Gitmo, asks court to dismiss FOIA lawsuit

The Obama administration is refusing to divulge how much it spent to build the secret prison facility at Guantanamo where the accused 9/11 co-conspirators are held and has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Miami Herald reporter demanding documents that would reveal the number.

In a filing Friday, the Justice Department said that the Pentagon had found just one document that would provide information relevant to a 2009 Freedom of Information Act request reporter Carol Rosenberg filed seeking that cost figure. That document was exempt from disclosure, the filing said, because it contained details of internal deliberations and the names of many officials who were entitled to privacy.

The Pentagon has refused to say who originally undertook the work, and its responses to Rosenberg's FOIA would indicate that it has no record of a construction contract or bidding document for the facility.

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