May 23 2013

Salon: Obama heckled at national security speech

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President Obama’s counterterrorism speech was interrupted by a heckler, identified as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin by reporters at the speech, who spoke about the Administration’s use of drones and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

“I’m willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me so slack, because it’s worth being passionate about,” Obama said. He added: “I obviously don’t agree with much of what she said.”

“Will you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives?” she yelled, as she was being escorted out. “Can you take the drones out of the hands of the CIA? Can you stop the signature strikes that are killing people on the basis of suspicious activities? Will you apologize to the thousands of Muslims that you have killed?”

“That will make us safer,” she added.

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