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The Obama administration is coming under increased pressure from politicians and the medical establishment to stop force feeding hunger-striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay. The military calls it a “lifesaving procedure.” The UN has called it “torture”

and a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine called it “aggravated assault.”



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