Dick Cheney in a December 15, 2008, telephone interview with Rush Limbaugh (White House dot gov source):

I think Guantanamo has been very well run. I think if you look at it from the perspective of the requirements we had, once you go out and capture a bunch of terrorists, as we did in Afghanistan and elsewhere, then you've got to have some place to put them. If you bring them here to the U.S. and put them in our local court system, then they are entitled to all kinds of rights that we extend only to American citizens.

Remember, these are unlawful combatants. These are people who don't belong to any recognized military force. They don't obey the rules of warfare. They're unlawful combatants. And you can't -- if you're not going to have a place to locate them like Guantanamo, then you either have to bring them here to the continental United States -- and I don't know any member of Congress who's volunteering to have al Qaeda terrorists deposited in his district -- or you've got to turn them over to some foreign government. And we found lots of times when you do that that a number of them have gone back into the -- on to the battlefield and tried to kill Americans again.

So Guantanamo has been very, very valuable. And I think they'll discover that trying to close it is a very hard proposition.

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Individual C, mentioned in the Blagojevich Complaint, has not been thoroughly covered in the news. From Paragraph 67 of the complaint:

Individual C is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who is believed to be attempting to assist Rod Blagojevich in passing a capital bill worth billions of dollars that would benefit Highway Contractor 1 and the trade association with which he is affiliated

From The Washington Post:

According to news reports, Blagojevich recruited two former congressman -- ex-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and former Rep. Glenn Poshard (D-Ill.), president of Southern Illinois University -- to help out with the construction project. It is unclear if the unnamed lawmaker knew about Blagojevich's fundraising plans.

Derek Kravitz, "Blagojevich's Fundraising Shakedowns Detailed" Washington Post, December 10, 2008