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By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog. org
Before becoming governor, before becoming a member of Congress, DeSantis was a JAG lieutenant commander and attorney in the U. S. Navy. He served in the U. S. Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention camp in Cuba and Fallujah in the Iraq War.
Not much is known about DeSantis’ duties there. DeSantis has published only limited highlights of his military career, highlighting in a speech, for example, that he spent Christmas 2006 at Guantanamo without his circle of relatives, and has continually refused to be interviewed about it, most recently at the Florida Bulldog. His official biography, cited through Wikipedia and other news sources, states that he “still serves in the U. S. Navy Reserve. “”U. S. ” Navy,” but the Navy says otherwise.
A Navy specification sheet on DeSantis to Florida Bulldog last week lists its date of separation from the Navy as Feb. 14, 2019, a month after it first opened. “He is neither active nor reservist. He is no longer a member of the Navy,” U. S. Navy spokeswoman said. U. S. Lt. Alyson Hands.
Forty-two pages of U. S. Navy filesHeavily censored U. S. Governor’s crusade released at Florida Governor Phoenix DeSantis’ crusade in 2018 imply that his naval duties included pieces like the deputy coordinator of urinalysis. Guantanamo, where many other people were arrested as part of the George W. administration’s war. Bush after September 11 were detained indefinitely without trial and amid multiple allegations of torture through the International Committee of the Red Cross and others, the Phoenix reported that records showed that between March 2006 and early January 2007, “DeSantis’ main task was to be a trial lawyer. that is, a prosecutor. The filing also showed that DeSantis was described as a “planner/administrative officer of the JTF-GTMO [Joint Guantanamo Task Force]. “No additional important points have been published.
The Tampa Bay Times reported the same year that several retired naval officers who served in the detention camp at the same time as DeSantis, adding some who worked with him, said his role in the Judge General’s (JAG) military’s legal corps “was to advocate for the fair and humane remedy of detainees to make sure the U. S. military was to make sure the U. S. military was able to do so. Comply with the law in the U. S.
Now, however, a former Guantanamo inmate has stepped forward to claim that DeSantis had a much darker role at Guantanamo. And his disturbing allegations about DeSantis have yet to be reported through any national or Florida media despite the governor’s well-known presidential ambitions.
Mansoor Adayfi, former detainee No. 441 and also known as Abdul Rahman Ahmed, said JAG officer Ron DeSantis observed, authorized and engaged in unlawful torture to quell a 2006 hunger strike through dozens of detainees protesting his detention. DeSantis also covered up the torture, Adayfi says.
Yemeni-born Adayfi, detained for 14 years without charge, was released in 2016 and flown to Serbia to start a new life after a review board decided he was not a risk to the United States. He made his accusations about DeSantis on Nov. 18. Eyes Left Interview Podcast, hosted by U. S. Army veteranU. S. and anti-war activist Michael Prysner, a graduate of Florida Atlantic University.
“I saw a lovely user coming. He said, ‘I’m here to make sure you’re treated humanely. And we said, okay, that’s our request, you know. We’re not asking for much,” Adayfi said. Il said DeSantis continued, “And if you have problems, if you have concerns, if you have Array. . . Just contact me. ” And you know that we, we, us, are drowning in this place. I’m like, “Oh, that’s great. ” This user is typing something. It will raise concerns, however, it was [a] part of the game. What they did, they did, they looked for what [would] harm you the most, to use opposite you.
Adayfi, now 44, said DeSantis watched with amusement as he and other inmates were force-fed a “meal replacement” shake through a nasal feeding tube pressed into their throats.
“Ron DeSantis was there and watching. We were crying, screaming. We were tied to the feeding chair and that guy; He was looking at it. He laughed essentially when we were fed, because. . . Our abdomen cannot hold this amount. They used to pour Be sure, one can after another, one can after another. So when he approached me, I told him that’s how we were treated. He said, “Start eating. ” Literally in his face.
DeSantis’ workplace did not respond to several requests for comment this week. However, some time after his election to Congress in 2012, he told PBS NewsHour that his service in the Navy shaped him as a leader. He told PBS that senior officials are guilty for doing their homework because there are consequences if not done right.
“You have to be responsible, if you have to pass the budget, you have to do it from the military’s standpoint which has consequences,” DeSantis said.
According to Prysner, Adayfi didn’t want to talk to the Florida Bulldog because of a bad party with a reporter. But Prysner said Adayfi identified DeSantis after the governor gained national notoriety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeSantis, like all other JAG attorneys, uses their real names when stationed at Guantanamo, according to Seton Hall University law professor Mark Denbeaux, the lead attorney for “high-value” detainee Abu Zubaydah, and Joseph Hickman, a former American lawyer. Army Team Leader and Guard Sergeant at Guantanamo.
“No one is doing it,” Denbeaux said. They will use Greek mythological characters or Indian names or invent names. They don’t need inmates or know who they are. This secret is a big deal. . . I have never realized this informed.
“DeSantis was a number,” said Hickman, who identified DeSantis after he was named governor in 2019. “You don’t forget him because he was handsome. He was a great guy. An athlete. You may see him running on base. . . In terms of their participation, I don’t think it was. He was too young and green in the JAG Corps to worry about anything.
According to the Navy, DeSantis was commissioned as an officer on April 26, 2004, a year before he graduated from Harvard Law School. After graduation, DeSantis became a student at Officer Training Command in Newport, RI. Test Service Office, Southeastern Detachment in Mayport, Florida.
DeSantis arrived at Guantanamo 3 months later. The 27 years.
Retired Navy Capt. Patrick McCarthy, a corps of workers who judges who oversaw DeSantis during his time at Guantanamo, told the Tampa Bay Times in 2018: “He was one of the other people I don’t forget very well, a capable guy and a young officer that I can accept as faithful to and depend on. . . He had a very intelligent judgment. The newspaper reports that DeSantis “was among the officers who traveled to and from Guantanamo for at least 3 brief transitional assignments, lasting a few weeks or months. As part of the detention center’s legal arm, McCarthy and his team have been tasked with ensuring that detainees take advantage of the rights granted under Defense Decomponentization rules and policies, as well as the non-unusual Section 3 of Geneva Law. Conventions, which set standards for how to treat detainees humanely like those at Guantanamo Bay.
That is, alleged members of al-Qaeda and other “enemy fighters” who were part of any country’s status army.
The Guantanamo detention camp was established through Bush’s leadership 4 months after September 11. The New York Times reports that the camp had 780 inmates at its peak, but now only 35 remain. Of these, 12 were charged with war crimes. Two have been convicted and 10, adding the alleged mastermind of September 11 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, are awaiting trial.
After Adayfi’s capture in January 2002, it was labeled a “high risk” risk and noted as a reward. A 2008 Defense Department assessment states, “The detainee is an identified member of Al-Qaida who had prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks. “, 2001 attacks, as well as other planned attacks opposed to U. S. interests. U. S. The detainee was known as the commander of the frontline evacuation forces thought to be the hostilities of Osama bin Laden’s 55th Arab Brigade (UBL) opposing U. S. and coalition forces, and was in oblique communication with UBL.
The Guantanamo Review Board’s October 28, 2015 resolution that Adayfi, who learned English while imprisoned, deserves to be released “in a country other than Yemen with adequate security guarantees,” included a very different assessment: “In making this resolution, the Board noted that the detainee was likely a low-level fighter who was aligned with al Qaeda, Although it is unclear if he joined this group and that he has no known links to extremism.
Adayfi’s testimony: He was not captured on the battlefield. He had traveled to Afghanistan as a study assistant to an instructor and was kidnapped by warlords and held for ransom. After September 11, at age 23, he sold it to the CIA in exchange for a money bond. .
Since his release, Adayfi has maintained a prominent profile. He tweets and in August 2021 published a memoir: Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow called it a “historic work. “
“Mansoor Adayfi offers us a guided tour of the nightmarish landscape of Guantanamo. It tells a story of casual cruelty and organized sadism that makes each and every American politician blush with shame,” Chernow wrote.
According to Prysner, this is because it was written before Adayfi made the connection between the “handsome man” he vomited about while being force-fed at Guantanamo Bay and the rising star of the Republican Party.
Prysner said Adayfi is lately writing an e-book about his reports coming with DeSantis.
On the Eyes Left podcast, Adayfi talked for several minutes about his memories of DeSantis.
“The feeding chair was like, you know, like 8 points. They tied our heads, shoulders, wrists, thighs and legs and they came here and they were talking to you. . . And they kept doing it again and again. And they put some kind of laxative in the feeding fluid. We’re kind of each other all the time. Then we would be transferred to isolation cells, without blood. If we vomited then, we used to arrive about five times a day. It wasn’t food, it was just, it was torture.
Guards intervened in the case, Adayfi said.
“So we didn’t last five days. . . They continued to pay the Encertain and within a week they broke all the hunger strikers. In a week, totally. It’s a project and he is there. Everyone watching/watching, the colonel, the officers, you know, the doctors, the nurses. And not only that, they also beat us and if we screamed or suffered, blood came out of our nose and mouth. You, eat, eat, eat. You know, we were beaten all day, all day. There is a team. Whatever you do, you get beaten, pepper spray, beatings, sleep deprivation. This lasted 3 months. And he [DeSantis] there because at first he told us he was there to make sure we were treated humanely.
“Ron DeSantis is there all the time because his task [] is to walk and communicate with the prisoners in the camp,” Adayfi said. “I tell Americans if this guy, if it’s humanity. delinquent.
“They were asking us to eat because they made our hunger attack a challenge and they had to avoid it because when he was there, they were chasing us and laughing because we were shitting too. And he laughed because when I eat screaming and screaming because when, when, when your abdomen is complete of Make sure you can’t breathe and that you vomit at the same time.
Adayfi said DeSantis was also amused when the Guantanamo team later began placing thicker plastic tubes with steel ends in his nose to administer the Ensure, which also led to a nosebleed. “It hurt so much and I was screaming,” she said. I was chasing him and he was smiling like someone who [was] enjoying him. When he approached, I just threw up in his face because I vomited all the way. And I’m being punished. They took off my clothes. . . . This is the reminiscence of that person. “
Adayfi said that when he showed DeSantis’ photo to former Guantanamo detainees on a shared social media site, “they started cursing him. “He’s one of the worst people. “
“One of the things that hurts us. When someone can tell you I’m here to help. I’m here to make sure you’re treated humanely. And when he became opposite to us, not opposed to, when he turned his face, his genuine face, it is a surprise to all of us. Because he used to communicate with prisoners. I had like a pocket book and asked the prisoners: Do you have any problems?And I like it, wow, thank you. And everything we told him failed.
Adayfi cited examples.
After inmates complained to DeSantis about how guards had used noisy vacuum cleaners, turbines and enthusiasts to keep them awake at night, he said, “They increased the noise. “When inmates told DeSantis they didn’t eat meat, “they used to combine all food with meat so you can’t eat. “
And then, he said, there was the desecration of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. “When I told him about it, he said he was trying to affect you. What hurts you the most.
A non-story. Terrorists lie. Interestingly, the 180-degree turn on this prisoner occurred under Obama, who was doing everything he could to empty Guantanamo.
So you have to tell me. The user whose toughest guy in Guantanamo is afraid of dying is Greg Toney ??? I despise Toney, but I have to laugh like a chick knowing that Desantis runs like a bird when Toney’s call is mentioned.
Wow. . . Worthy of an extra safe exam. Thank you, Dan, and you may continue to investigate.
Well, there you have it!! Let’s hope he makes a toast.
Infallible.
Ron DeSantis definitely has a ruthless tendency in him, as his immigrant remedy.
Thank you for this article.
Personally, Ron DeSantis, like so many others, had an “awakening” after 2005 about what really happened on September 11.
I wonder if you do not regret the ideals you had in your time as a JAG officer.
I heard that it is very easy and treats prisoners like Andy and Barney did with Otis in Mayberry.
I’m sorry, but I in no way base my opinion on what a former prisoner says. Especially after what others of his nationality did to us and tried to do to us on September 11.
Pardon. Ne don’t buy what you sell. If it was such a big problem, then why wasn’t it reported earlier than now?It’s hard for the story, especially when the familiar participants have their paintings cut out for them. Especially those who are A) A known fighter/enemy B) A well-known anti-war spokesperson C) A third-hand rumor because the main character won’t speak D) Wikipedia is such a reliable source. This is nothing more than a poor attempt at defamation. Welcome to fashionable American politics.
Oh, please, Dan, don’t wear your DNC lapels on your jacket for us, report genuine news and not discredited faint gossip from a terrorist. Why not make a presentation about Frank Biden’s role at a local law firm, even if he’s not a lawyer?What do you do in the company? Check that out for anything that’s local and newsworthy.
Hopefully, there will be more data corroborating or refuting the report. Adayfi is not the only detainee who has alleged torture. Floridians have noticed its ruthless sequence, but it’s only aimed at Floridians.
SO or just before that, R0n said to “thwart FBI investigation”
Savdis$ . . Bozonarco from Brazil hidden in O Town. STRANGE”. . Nothing good.
The illegal Islamist fighters who need to kill us, detained in the U. S. Army detention center. U. S. citizens in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are TRAINED to LIE if they are caught. Having served there at first, as a senior officer in the U. S. Army Medical Department. U. S. Operations Group, I can tell you that all the detainees were treated with dignity and respect by the military. Any abuse, however small, was dealt with without delay and the perpetrators were disciplined and sent home. I witnessed the first intubation (human feeding) of the inmates. in Guantanamo, and it was done with wonderful humanity and care. Intubation is routinely carried out for premature and comatose patients, etc. The incident was videotaped and reviewed for rape and unnecessary brutality.
It may just be an invention, but how would we really know?Prisoners lie. But on the other hand, they are too often treated inhumanely. This happens occasionally and goes unreported. Because there are no “credible” witnesses. No one will believe the inmates. Then this kind of thing will continue. I wouldn’t say DeSantis does despicable things, and that he and his teammates were gifted with it.
This requires more eyewitness accounts than more reliable witnesses. Supporting documentation would be welcome. That turns out to be correct. Now make it verifiable.
It shows that DeSantis is a sadistic fool. Well, he hits me a little bit like that with his politics anyway. While force-feeding to prevent prisoners from getting hurt while on hunger strike is not contrary to the Geneva Convention and Adayfi made a big mistake by not adding DeSantis in his recently published original memoir, because it is now less plausible, it is as if he is only looking to capitalize on Ron’s presidential career.
It’s disgusting. What a monster.
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