Apr. 30, 2013
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Matthew Balan
From 30 April 2013 White House press conference:
BILL PLANTE, CBS: But President, as you probably are aware, there's a growing hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay among prisoners there. Is it any surprise, really, that they would prefer death rather than – have no end in sight to their confinement?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, it is not a surprise to me that we've got problems in Guantanamo, which is why when I was campaigning in 2007, in 2008; and when I was elected in 2008, I said we need to close Guantanamo. I continue to believe that we've got to close Guantanamo-
PLANTE: You do?
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