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Guantanamo is filled now with men, many of whom have never been charged, because they have never done anything. you can pull them in there and yesterday, the house of representatives passed a bill to say dont let anyone out no matter what they did. you know, these men are deteriorating. i have client there is who are on hunger strike and being force fed. there are innocent people there. that is not the american way. you also have this week the bush era official in charge of giving legal opinions...

Successful. >> we have a 91% conviction rate and we have a legal system that has been proved through history to be adequate to the task. the military commissions havent. you also have to understand guantanamo is filled with men, many of whom have never been charged because they have never done anything. you can pull them in there and yesterday the house of representatives passed a bill to say dont let anyone out, no matter what they do. they are deteriorating. i have clients there who are on hun...

And the teacher assistant said she made jason put the crayons in his mouth. they suspended her and ten months later fired her following an investigation. jasons parents were satisfied with the decision but would be surprised to learn what happened next. gomez complained about being fired and went to an administrative court. she admitted putting hot sauce on the crayons but denied the force feeding. in the findings, the court declared ms. gomez peeled the paper off several jumbo sized crayons and...

12 years after it first opened and six months after president obama renewed his campaign pledge to close it, the prison at guantanamo cuba is still open. today, 164 detain knees, most of whom have been held there for over a decade, remain at the facility and over half of them, 84, very cleared for transfer. 11 of these detainees are presently on hunger strike and are being force fed on a daily basis. how long this will continue is anybodys guess. last week several reports indicated that the whit...

That number dropped to 19 inmates, a number that stayed unchanged for two weeks now. the statement by prison spokesperson, as always our medical professionals will continue to monitor an evaluate the detainees while providing them with the appropriate level of care. 18 of those inmates are still on the force feeding list, an issue thats drawn widespread controversy and renewed calls for the administration to close the prison. not everyone is convinced the new tally is accurate and some are wonde...

He went away for rehab, behavioral therapy, came back -- >> for a short while. >> a short while. now hes back and meeting with representatives of the city. a physicist is now asking for more information about what was going on at the time a jet went down. thomas has filed two lawsuits now claiming his freedom of information act requests were not adequately answered. this is what he wants to know. were there military exercises going on at that time. the group believes the missile brought the je...

>> when you have the chance to stand up for americans privacy, did you? >> the lower chamber isnt the only place in washington with a spirited debate on counterterrorism. yesterday the senate held its first hearing in five years on the future of guantanamo where 166 detainees remain indefinitely, 86 of whom have been cleared for release but remain imprisoned. as of yesterday, 69 of the prisoners are on hunger strike and 45 are being force fed. democrats and republicans remain sharply divided ove...

It would change the vote. harry reid has been threatening to go nuclear in order to get stalled presidential nominees confirmed. our contributor says the filibuster has been abused and when he pulled the numbers, this looks pretty stark. he notes it was invoked to just 35 times in its first 50 years compared to more than 100 over the past two years. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay continues as of tonight, 81 detainees are in the strike. thats a drop from 102 detainees on friday. 45 of thos...

Would eat? this is stuff we do have in the house and i do not overpolice my kids knowing that the one that are overpoliced go to their friends house. >> exactly. its so strict. >> there is enough variety. >> whatever happens, theyre losing 100 grand a pop trying to lose from this. something went wrong. what should they do to fix it. >> first, they could have a program like this but a variety. offer a variety of things. kids are people too. one day you want a hamburger. >> sure, string beans, aru...

>> reporter: detainee number 239 has lived within the barbed wire fences of guantanamo more than 11 years. now, he is one of 103 detainees on a hunger strike to close the prison down. this is what he wrote in response to questions from his lawyer. i am not yet being force fed he wrote. the new procedure is to wait until people are really badly off and have physically harmed themselves, perhaps permanently, before force-feeding, which then just keep us barely alive as a hipocra husk of a human be...