Meister, Ronald - short clip - DerelictionofDuty

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	(pencil scratching)	0:00
-	These force feeding protocols were eventually developed.	0:02
	The mechanisms of the force feeding have become harsher	0:08
	over time so that the force feedings are done	0:12
	with the use of what are called five-point restraint chairs,	0:17
	which have the detainee, prisoners strapped down,	0:21
	immobilized and fed through a nasal gastric tube.	0:26
	There have been some more or less	0:34
	protests by lawyers for the detainees	0:41
	as to the actual methods.	0:47
	Is the tube too big?	0:50
	Are people, the detainees	0:52
	caused to bleed	0:57
	or suffer other medical injury?	0:59
	There are also what are called forcible cell extractions,	1:03
	in which, with a degree of force,	1:06
	the detainees are removed from their cells	1:09
	for the forced feeding.	1:12
	Now, one of the detainees,	1:14
	a man by the name of Diab,	1:19
	brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court	1:22
	in the District of Columbia,	1:24
	which he was able to do only because of the results	1:25
	of the Supreme Court decision in Morisul	1:27
	in which he sued to stop force-feeding.	1:32
	The case was before Judge Gladys Kessler,	1:38
	in the district court.	1:40
	Judge Kessler first ruled that she had no power	1:41
	to rule on this issue.	1:44
	Case was appealed to the District Columbia Court of Appeals	1:46
	which reversed her on that issue and said, yes, you do.	1:48
	Judge Kessler wrote some opinions	1:53
	in which she criticized harshly	1:57
	the force-feeding as causing discomfort, being painful	2:00
	and being very unpleasant.	2:04
	During the course of that litigation	2:08
	in his testimony, Mr.Diab	2:12
	disclosed that there was a nurse	2:17
	who refused to do it.	2:21
	Do the force-feeding.	2:24
	Didn't know the nurses name,	2:26
	wouldn't know the nurses name because	2:27
	any identification tags	2:29
	of the troops are obscured.	2:31
	He gave physical description of the nurse.	2:36
	And once it became	2:40
	a subject of public knowledge	2:44
	that there was a nurse	2:47
	who turned out to be the nurse	2:49
	that I have represented over these years,	2:51
	I believe that the authorities had to do something about it.	2:56
	And that's when he was	2:59
	sent back to his prior duty station	3:02
	and it was recommended	3:05
	that he be prosecuted.	3:09
Interviewer	For what crime?	3:12
-	I believe the recommendation was for dereliction of duty.	3:15

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Title:

Meister, Ronald - short clip - DerelictionofDuty

Date:

May 25, 2016

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Meister, Ronald

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This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Military Attorney
Ronald Meister, male, age 69, has successfully represented since 2014 a Navy nurse at Guantanamo Bay who refused to carry out orders to force-feed detainee hunger-strikers.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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United States

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oral histories

Language:

English

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1:13:27

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