Statement by Center for Constitutional Rights on meeting with Obama
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, met yesterday with President Obama. He released this statement:
CCR attended the meeting as did ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Charlie Swift and others. The president did not preview his speech for us. The president was very open in hearing CCR’s concerns on a range of guantanamo policy issues. I came out of the meeting deeply disappointed in the direction that the administration is taking and I don’t see meaningful differences between these detention policies and those erected by President Bush.
May 21, 2009
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