bill: back of the book segment tonight, watters world on labor day weekend, thousands of muslims gathered in washington for the islamic society of north america convention. today, of course, the 12th anniversary of 9/11 so this edition of watters world is especially appropriate. what is the muslim convention? i m here to gain more knowledge about my own religion. great to be with your fellow americans who happen to be also muslim. i m not muslim. but you are here at the muslim convention. yes. president obama still has gitmo open. yes, he does. does that bother you? it does. so, gitmo? that s terrible. and they are being tortured. the u.s. is torturing people. they are force feeding them which is one form of torture. what are we looking at here. burkini. this is a burkini i
bill: back of the book segment tonight, watters world on labor day weekend, thousands of muslims gathered in washington for the islamic society of north america convention. today, of course, the 12th anniversary of 9/11 so this edition of watters world is especially appropriate. what is the muslim convention? i m here to gain more knowledge about my own religion. great to be with your fellow americans who happen to be also muslim. i m not muslim. but you are here at the muslim convention. yes. president obama still has gitmo open. yes, he does. does that bother you? it does. so, gitmo? that s terrible. and they are being tortured. the u.s. is torturing people. they are force feeding them which is one form of torture. what are we looking at here. burkini. this is a burkini i
transfer people and to close the prison. and that is ultimately what we need to be talking about and what we need to be seeing. doctor, in just 30 seconds, tell me this. is it more ethical to allow people to potentially die, because part of what the president has said is, this is we can t allow people to die as detainees, so we have to do the force feeding. is that an actual ethical problem, or do we simply not engage in force feeding as a country? well, it s really the risk of dying is far down the road. and so right at this point, when these people have refused to eat, because they re expressing their discouragement, it s not an ethical problem. the ethical thing to do by the physicians is to counsel them and work with them and to engage all the parties there to do what has already been expressed. i mean, is to move on. and to locate where they want to
mesmerized and repulsed by what he saw. he went on to launch an inquiry into the united nations interrogation techniques. even though president obama had already banned waterboarding almost immediately after taking office in 2009. on tuesday, james comey, the nominee for fbi director, put a feign point on our country s evolution on waterboarding, during his testimony before the senate judiciary committee and specifically a question from senator leahy. do you agree that waterboarding is torture and is illegal? yes. that easy answer continues to allude us when it comes to the question of how we re currently treating the guantanamo bay detainees who have been on hunger strike since february. force feeding. doesn t sound quite as benign as waterboarding, but still, we re told by our government, necessary, compassionate, even. except, now we know, we got a good lack at exactly what constitutes force feeding, when
federal judges have condemned the treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay. on thursday, the chief judge of the district court ordered the military to end the genital searches of the detainees when they re moved from their cells to meet with attorneys. the judge called the searches religiously and culturally abhorrent to muslims and suggested the searches were intended to deter detainees from meeting with their lawyers. in a separate decision on monday, u.s. district judge gladys kessler responded to requests from a syrian detainee to end the force feeding of up to 45 of the 102 detainees who have been on hunger strike since february. although judge kessler said she d lack legal jurisdiction to end force feeding at gitmo, she wrote in her ruling that the practice was, quote, painful, humiliating, and degrading and she made a point of noting the one person she says has the power to directly address the issue. president obama. here at the table, glenn martin, formerly incarcerated and no