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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 are? is that something our founders foresaw? is that the america we want to leave our children? >> ...

>> 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 being. he went on, i do not want to be force fed or die either. this is a living dyed in guantanamo. i...

What was going on in every one of the facilities down there. i don't know what she's talking about. it is not a crisis mode. it's 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 didn't 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 of doing that. the thing to say about these hunger strikers, they look to me like a lot of them h...

>> why don't you let me address it. >> and those prisoners. >> why don't 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 president credit for moral seriousness. but there is a flaw that has to do with the strategy.

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 the shackles, tubes and liquids being used to feed those refusing to eat. supplements are pumped in ...