At one point, the prison warden himself recommended McGowan's transfer out of the CMU citing his good behavior, but the warden was overruled by the Bureau of Prison's Counterterrorism Unit, working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI.
En un momento, la prisión de Warden recomienda transferir a McGowan de la UGC por buena conducta, pero la denegó el director de la Unidad Prisiones Antiterrorismo, que trabaja con la unidad antiterrorista del FBI.