From The Chicago Tribune:

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Wolf said he didn’t trust President Barack Obama’s administration when it pledged it would not use the prison to house suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A federal law already prohibits bringing terrorist detainees to U.S. soil.

“Frankly, I do not trust the (Justice) Department or the Administration to enforce the law forbidding the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States,” Wolf wrote Holder. Wolf also noted the Republican-led House had previously voted to hold Holder in contempt over the failed Fast and Furious gun-walking program.

Sen. Dick Durbin, the state’s senior senator and the second-ranking Democrat in leadership, said Wolf’s latest rejection of the  downstate Thomson prison purchase “reflects tortured logic and his personal feelings about the president and his attorney general.”

“Congressman Wolf is prepared to sacrifice over 1,000 jobs which we desperately need to flex his political muscle,” Durbin said. “I have worked for three years to bring these jobs home to our state and I will continue to work with President Obama to get this job done.”