Steve Chapman: At Gitmo, a Tough Policy To Swallow

President
Barack Obama is a champion of using video cameras to prevent and
expose misconduct by uniformed people with guns. He is also a great
believer in banning the use of torture on detainees in the war on
terror. It may come as a surprise, then, to find that he doesn’t
want to release videos of Guantanamo inmates being force-fed,
writes Steve Chapman.

Force-feeding of prisoners is generally recognized as a cruel
practice. Obama has expressed reservations about it even as he has
approved its continued use. The logic of his two positions comes
right out of “Alice in Wonderland”: If the images never become
public, there is no evidence that he allows torture.

But the images may become public despite his preference,
according to Chapman.

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