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☆ Allegations that Ron DeSantis force-fed an inmate at Guantanamo Bay don't check out because he was just a low-level grunt at the time, ex-colonel says
  + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A former Guantanamo detainee alleges that Ron DeSantis force-fed him while he was on a hunger strike. But Ron DeSantis was a junior officer as a Navy lawyer at the time. An ex-colonel told the New York Times that DeSantis would have been stuck doing grunt work. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Another lawyer told the Times that DeSantis was doing low-level grunt work at the time.
Persons: Ron DeSantis, —, DeSantis, Morris Davis, Mansoor Adayfi, Adayfi, Matthew Rosenberg, Carol Rosenberg, Piers Morgan Organizations: New York Times, Service, Guantanamo, US Navy, Air Force, The New York Times, Times Locations: Guantanamo
☆ An ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee says he still remembers Ron DeSantis smiling at him from behind a fence while he was being force-fed: 'You cannot forget that'
  + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
An ex-Gitmo detainee said Ron DeSantis smiled at him as he was being force-fed, per The Daily Beast. The remarks come from an unaired documentary transcript detailing DeSantis' time as a Navy lawyer. Ron DeSantis smiled at him from behind a fence while watching him get force-fed, per the Daily Beast. This stands in stark contrast to a 2018 CBS interview, during which DeSantis told a reporter that JAG legal advisers told Guantanamo Bay commanders that people "can force-feed" and laid out the "kind of the rules for that." In the Al Jazeera piece, Adayfi said DeSantis wasn't the person who ordered that the hunger strike be broken violently — he just watched.
Persons: Ron DeSantis, Mansoor Adayfi, Adayfi, DeSantis, I'm, Al Organizations: Navy, Service, Guantanamo, Florida Gov, Daily, Florida Republican, US Navy, Showtime, Hollywood, CBS, Washington Post Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida, Qaeda, Serbia, Guantanamo, Al Jazeera
☆ DeSantis loses his cool with a reporter after being challenged over claims he witnessed torture while working at Guantanamo Bay
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ron DeSantis clashed with a reporter when questioned about Guantanamo Bay. A former detainee claims DeSantis witnessed him being force fed. Ron DeSantis was involved in a tetchy exchange with a reporter after being questioned about whether he witnessed detainees being tortured in Guantanamo Bay. The UN has said that it regards the force feeding of inmates at Guantanamo as a form of torture. "So everything at that time was legal in nature one way or another," DeSantis told a CBS affiliate in 2018.
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