GITMO Detainee Says DeSantis Played Role In Torture & Hunter's Laptop Suit Could Impact Privacy Laws

Florida governor Ron DeSantis doesn’t talk much about his time as a JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay, and that might be because detainees at the prison say that he was personally involved in the torture that they experienced. Plus, Hunter Biden has decided that he’s tired of being a punching bag, so he’s going to start fighting back. He’s now filed a lawsuit against the computer repair shop owner for allegedly violating his privacy. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis doesn't talk much about his time as a JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay and that might be because detainees at the prison say that he was personally involved in torture that they experienced. Okay, first of all, this is a bigger story than the DeSantis part of it.

Oh yeah, much bigger.

DeSantis, you know, if you take the, you know, we beat on DeSantis every week. Every, every week. But here he was a JAG officer. He was looking through a fence. He was trying to say, these are standards that we have to follow. It was force feeding. Force feeding is not, you know, under all the treaties is not torture. But I mean, the attack on him, it's just gonna be a pile up attack. This is just one of them. Give me your take on it. I think this is a bigger story than DeSantis because if you go after DeSantis on this, you gotta go after all of these people who knew exactly what was, Obama. All of Obama's people knew exactly what was going on there. Right?

Well, and see, that's the problem is that not a single person was held accountable. You know, when this began under the Bush administration with the torture, not just at Guantanamo, I mean the Abu Ghraib pictures that were all over the media. They tried to pin it on one or two individuals. They even claimed one of the women involved in torture, oh, well, she was, when she was born, she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, so it starved her of oxygen. And they said that's why she ended up torturing. But this was, this was legalized to a degree by Alberto Gonzales, by George W. Bush himself.

The force feeding, the force feeding with these prisoners who were saying, look, I'm gonna starve myself.

We're on a hunger strike because we're being held here on no charges. And this individual who's got a new book out, and he says, Ron DeSantis was right there watching as all of these horrible things are happening to me. He was released after 14 years with no charges at all. So we just held him and plenty of other folks for over a decade.

Yeah.

And then eventually said, all right, you can go home.

What was going on back then is you would have tribal, you'd have tribes that this person in this tribe hated this person in this tribe. So they would tell the US government about it. They would tell the military about it. They would take that person prisoner and put 'em in Guantanamo. It was just in fighting. A lot of it was just pure crazy in fighting and it took us years to figure that out. And this guy, as you say, was there for 14 years. And he was, I guess, you know, you can't explain it any other way. He's bleeding through the mouth. The force feeding is not just stick a tube down somebody's nose and everything's okay. But the story is, DeSantis was JAG officer. He was there at the time. There's a lot worse stories about DeSantis than that.

Yeah.

The stories that are taking place in Florida right now are horrendous. What he's doing to consumers in Florida is horrendous. And so if we look at DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate, we have to say, is he gonna do same thing nationally? And there's a big history of him really abusing consumers in Florida.

And there is, and to me, this story with this prisoner's new book is not even really the DeSantis story. It's the story of how we just hit the 20 year anniversary this week of the Iraq War. Nobody has been held accountable for any part of it, whether it's the torture, the lies leading up to it. Colin Powell walking into the UN with his little vile saying, oh, this is proof right here.

Complete lie.