This year, the State Department reassigned the special envoy who had been tasked in 2009 with closing the facility and lowered the post's profile by assigning the job to the department's legal adviser's office.
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's top lobbyist in Europe and an adviser from Mr. Hunt's office appear to show the pair essentially strategizing together to win approval for the deal and comparing notes about an "opposition" that included other media outlets and the Labour Party.
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