Perino Confirms White House Canceled Meeting On Guantanamo Closure After AP Report

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/22/perino-backtracks-gitmo

Perino Confirms White House Canceled Meeting On Guantanamo Closure After AP Report

Last night, the Associated Press reported that the Bush administration was “nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,” and that senior officials were “expected to discuss the move at the White House on Friday.”

The White House originally denied there was a scheduled White House meeting to discuss the topic. During a press briefing today, White House spokesperson Dana Perino confirmed that the White House had tried to mislead the public:

Yes, there was going to be a meeting today. But there was a determination that it wasn’t needed. … I think that the decision to not have the meeting happened late in the day after that story came out.

Perino confirmed that the closure of Guantanamo was a focus of the meeting. “The meeting was going to be focusing on doing what the president has asked them to do for the past few years, which is work to get the facility closed,” said Perino. “I wasn’t there to decide why the meeting was canceled,” she said. “All I know is that the meeting was canceled.” Watch it:

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[Zensea]

1. I don't believe Bush has been working to close it for the past few years

Everything they've done is an attempt to keep it open & it's only been open for a few years.
If they were really trying to close it, they wouldn't be appealing every damn case the courts have decided against them (unless of course they appeal them in order to keep the system in place for the whole country).
I'm not the idiot they must think some people are.