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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