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CodePink Founder Medea Benjamin Repeatedly Interrupts Obama Speech

HeadlineMay 24, 2013

President Obama’s speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., was interrupted multiple times by Medea Benjamin, the founder of CodePink.

Medea Benjamin: “Can you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives? 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? Will you compensate the innocent family victims? That will make us safer here at home.”

President Obama later referenced Medea Benjamin when he renewed his four-year-old promise to close the military prison at Guantánamo.

President Obama: “Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are hold — being held on a hunger strike. I’m willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me some slack, because it’s worth being passionate about. Is that who we are? Is that something our founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave to our children?”

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