Reply #3: WH denial: White House Says Administration Not Ready to Shut Guantanamo

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Source: VOA News

White House Says Administration Not Ready to Shut Guantanamo
By Meredith Buel
Capitol Hill
22 June 2007

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says a meeting Friday to
discuss Guantanamo was canceled because "there was no need
for such a meeting at this time."

Perino says media reports that the administration is nearing a
decision to close the facility are wrong.

"What I can tell you is that meeting was not a decisional meeting."
she said. "There was nothing imminent coming out of that meeting
and there are people who are charged with, tasked with, working
on this issue everyday."

Perino reiterated that President Bush wants to close the detention
center, but says there are several steps to be worked out,
including sending some detainees back to their home countries.

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