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Fed. >> back in 2005 or 2006 they used to leave the tube in my nose for days on end and now pull it out for every feed so we have 120 centimeters shoved in and pulled out twice day. if someone vomits on themself as just happened, they carry on force-fe force-feeding him. it is very very wrong. >> the millimetitary says it is force-feeding to keep them away. even president obama has questioned the practice. >> the current situation we are force-feeding detainees on a tunger strike. is this who we...

>> 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...

What was going on in every one of the facilities down there. i dont know what shes talking about. it is not a crisis mode. its a clean facility, the prisoners were well taken care of -- >> congressman, are you denying there was any force feeding, or are you just saying you didnt see it? >> we have prisoners down there that have chosen not to consume calori calories, chosen not to take protein. we have an obligation to try and take care of them, and our folks down there are doing an amazing job o...

>> why dont you let me address it. >> and those prisoners. >> why dont you sit down. look at the current situation, we are force feeding detainees held on a hunger strike. i am willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me some slack because it is worth being passionate about. >> they are guantanamo bay and his efforts to shut it down. steve hays; charles lane. opinion writer for the washington post and charles krauthammer. >> charles, the speech was lengthy and detailed. >> i give the presid...

Military prison camp at guantanamo bay. >> a police the president has been wanting to close since day one. half the inmate there is now refusing to eat for 100 days. a hunger strike. military doctors are keeping some of the strikers alive by force feeding them. >> and that is a problem, controversial. human rights groups say force feeding is at best unethical, at worst it could be a form of torture. chris lawrence is down there and sent will this report. >> reporter: cnn got a firsthand look at ...

Would continue supplying him with bags full of cash. he was getting ghost money totaling millions of dollars. on saturday, karzai, whose government has been accused of corruption, said the money has helped with problems. because of all these rumors in the media, ploes do not cut all this money because we really need it. we want to continue this sort of assistance and the cia station chief in kabul promised that they are not going to cut this money. the situation at guantanamo bay remains unres...

Terrorist tack from the beginning and never reported a demonstration. those claims seem to directly contradict ambassador susan rices comments after the attack. hicks will testify before issas committee about what happened in benghazi on wednesday. a u.s. military defense lawyer provided a graphic account of how detainees at guantanamo bay are being force fed to keep them from starving while on hunger strikes. lieutenant colonel barry wine garth, represents two of the kuwaitis in guantanamo to...

To address conditions at the base now, worse than we have seen them at years, people in 24-hour lock down and ultimately, to address the root of this problem, which is indefinite detention without charge, an unsustainable and moral and illegal position. >> do we expect the force feedings to continue? >> thats been the militarys position, force feeding of people who can make informed decisions about refusing feud sfood undeniably a violation of medical it he ethics. >> i appreciate your time and ...

Current and former detainees being held at gitmo. do you represent any of the folks who are participating in the hunger strike? >> we do we represent men who are currently on hunger strike who have been on strike now for nearly three months. most of the men actually at get mow now have been on strike since early february. >> any of the folks that you represent are they being force fed as well? >> a couple of them r some of them are longer term hunger strikers, to be clear what force feeding mean...

Its basically at 6% right now. >> its reported by the washington post. >> beyond sending them away, is force feeding, is that humane to let people go on hunger strikes? >> i think theres merit that if people see there is a way that theyll eventually be released or dealt with. there is a hunger strike. every prison wants to be humanitarian. there is that solution. >> wait a minute. i want to stay on this for a minute. these people do not even follow the law of war. both are legal and in the const...