Other priorities distracting Obama from Gitmo plans: Former CIA contractor
Press TV has conducted an interview with Steven D. Kelley, a former contractor with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA), in Los Angeles, to ask for his take on the issue of detainees at the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay.
What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Almost every government entity in the US has signed off on closing Guantanamo Bay, yet it remains open. Why?
Kelley: Believe or not, they are slowly but surely removing the people, and it seems like the only ones that are left now… they’ve got some sort of strange reasons for keeping them and obviously some of the guys… one of them is notorious, he was thought to be Osama’s bodyguard.
But this guy here, he was just picked up a young man… that didn’t really, had no idea why they picked him up. He is a skinny guy, he is a frail guy and the bottom-line is the nutrients are not taking… All the people on this… they are getting forced fed. For whatever reason, his body is rejecting the fluids and that’s the problem, that’s why he is dying, so yeah they should let him go.
Press TV: What’s the legality of being forced-fed inside of a detention center like this?
Kelley: Well, you know, obviously, could argue about the legality and the ethics of doing this. Clearly, the ideal situation would be that they would not be there or certainly if they were there that everyone would cooperate and they would eat nice and that sort of thing.
This is a protest. Clearly, they are going to do everything they can to keep them from succeeding in dying as a result of their protest so this is their option; [to feed them] through the nose or through the rectum. But whatever reason again, this particularly gentleman his body is just rejecting that.
Press TV: What are the chances that we are going this notorious prison closed while Obama still in office in the remainder of his term in office?
Kelley: I think Obama has much larger priorities, although he is moving in that direction I think, but of course I think he has many priorities that really are taking his attention beyond this one.
The price we paid for freedom
ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu to worry Western politicians: Former British diplomat
Former FBI agent criticizes US Congress for 'outright corruption'
VIDEO | British Medical Association cancels pro-Palestinian doctor’s speech
Trump admin. to freeze Brown grants, impose Harvard restrictions over pro-Palestinian protests
VIDEO | Yarmouk demonstrations condemn Israeli attacks on Syria, Palestine
VIDEO | Indian parliament approves controversial Muslim Waqf law
Yemen's army targets Tel Aviv, downs Giant Shark F360 drone in Sa’daa amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Islamic scholars issue fatwa urging Muslim nations to support Palestinian resistance
VIDEO | Trump trade war
Houthi: Intensified US aggression against Yemen failed
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
