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Ari Melber on What’s Really Wrong with Obama’s Gitmo Plan

Posted by ben on 07/10/2009 @ 1:06 pm

On Thursday, July 9, The Nation’s  Ari Melber spoke with The Young Turks about President Obama’s radical, potentially unconstitutional plans for Guantanamo detainees.  Calling attention to the issues he laid out in his recent Politico piece, Melber criticizes President Obama’s support of “preventative detention” saying, “Even President Bush, who as president stretched the boundaries of executive power, never went to congress to get the power to hold people indefinitely.”

Listen to the full interview here: Ari Melber on Obama’s Radical Gitmo Policy.

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