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And let me start with this report. it talks about more than waterboarding and i want to clarify something we said at the top of the program. they talk about the threat of sexual abuse to family members of detainees and they had threatened to do so. it also talks about force-feeding detainees through their anus and i wanted to read to you the quote, glenn. five detainees were subjected to rectal rehydration or feeding without necessity and it talked about one detainee saying, the lunch tray of hummus, pasta with sauce and raisins was pureed and rectally infused. i know this is graphic but it gi...

Until today. finally able to bring this to fruition. he's over joyed. looking forward to learning spanish and reuniting with his family and try to rebuild what's left of his life after 13 of his prime years have been on hold for over a decade. >> huge debate is a question of force feeding which continues and there are videotapes of it and there's a ranging debate whether they will be released. the u.s. insists it is legal if it is, why can't we see it. are you optimistic over what is being done in terms of force feeding. >> my hope is that those pressing in court for these videos to be release...

Through this procedure as opposed to intervenous feeding which involves needles and other somethings. let's not forget, as we speak, the current government of the united states is using force feeding on detainees at guantanamo who also are refusing to eat. >> is that rectal? >> no, it's not. and i'm not prepared to tell you why one method was chosen over another at some point in the past. i would think, though, before making that kind of accusation, somebody may have wanted to talk to someone and get their explanation as to why and when and for what purpose it was done. >> senator feinstein to...

Good? >> yeah. and i think the report goes into great details about the way the members felt they weren't getting the full story. in hindsight, it's important to know we don't know if they're trying to distance themselves, but certainly these briefings don't sound like they were, you know, satisfactory for informing them completely of what was going on. we should remember, even to the extent if there were a list of techniques that may have been authorized, there's a whole other sort of activities including the force feeding, including contracting out some of these services to two individuals w...

The hunger strike at gitmo may have its first owner. a navy nurse rest recently refused to carry out tubal feeding of detainees in the first military rebellion against the prison policy of force feeding. a spokesman would not confirm, but told the paper there was a resin stance of a medical provider not willing to carry out the feeding of a detainee. the matter is in the hands of the individual's leadership. word of the refusal came by way of a lawyer for one of the detainees, a hunger striker. according to his attorney, he quotes the nurse, a man, as saying i have come to the decision that i ...