On Wednesday Senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin submitted a letter to President Obama urging him to halt the force-feedings at Guantanamo Bay prison.
The senators referred to President Obama’s May 23 speech, in which he talked about the force feedings and asked, “Is this who we are?” Feinstein and Durbin wrote:
We therefore encourage you to direct the Department of Defense to stop conducting such large-scale force-feedings, and, where force-feeding is medically necessary to save a detainee’s life, to observe the protections required at U.S. Bureau of Prisons facilities. It is our understanding that the U.S. federal prison guidelines for force-feedings include several safeguards and oversight mechanisms that are not in place at Guantanamo Bay.
Those safeguards include requiring the warden to notify a judge of the involuntary









