the only ones that violate prisoners' rights the federal government does it as well and we've seen two communications management units that have popped up in the federal bureau of prisons these are units designed to isolate certain prisoners who the federal bureau of prisons considers dangerous mostly to keep individuals who are engaged in social movements primarily a significant amount of muslim prisoners who the bureau of prisons doesn't want to spread their religious practices and thoughts through the larger prison system individuals are sent to these units without any procedural protections so individuals are told you know reliable evidence indicates your involvement in recruitment or radicalization or something to that degree and with no more is sent into one of these communications management units in the units they're denied contact visits they have extremely little limited telephone access to the outside world it's about segregating and isolating unpopular prisoners and your organization has concluded that solitary confinement is torture i heard multiple eyewitnesses who had been in solitary testifying at the senate's first hearing on solitary last year

the only ones that violate prisoners' rights the federal government does it as well and we've seen two communications management units that have popped up in the federal bureau of prisons these are units designed to isolate certain prisoners who the federal bureau of prisons considers dangerous mostly to keep individuals who are engaged in social movements primarily a significant amount of muslim prisoners who the bureau of prisons doesn't want to spread their religious practices and thoughts through the larger prison system individuals are sent to these units without any procedural protections so individuals are told you know reliable evidence indicates your involvement in recruitment or radicalization or something to that degree and with no more is sent into one of these communications management units in the units they're denied contact visits they have extremely little limited telephone access to the outside world and it's about segregating and isolating unpopular prisoners and your organization has concluded that solitary confinement is torture i heard multiple eyewitnesses who had been in solitary testifying at the senate's first hearing on solitary last

the federal bureau of prisons rejected her transfer to a hospital last month despite the recommendations of her prison warden. her husband said her condition is getting worse by the day. getting sicker by the day. when i saw her, when everett i would not get to see her because she was in quarantine. that mean you're white blood cell count is so low, it is dangerous for her to be in populations. they did not stop her from visiting me, but she is still not in population. they said she is self- sufficient. she does not do anything for herself. she does not eat, clean, maker of bed. they say she is self-sufficient, but she does nothing. >> to see more of a discussion on her case, you can go to our website, democracynow.org. those are some of the headlines. democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. ahmed assem el- senousy -- i'm amy goodman. >> i'm nermeen shaikh. egypt remains in crisis after afterd morsi left office days of protest. on tuesday, hazem el-beblawi was named as interim prime minister and also named nobel peace laureate mohamed of their day a. several key group

and i do also know that there are times in the bureau of prison where the federal authorities have had to force feed someone who is reef refusing to eat and they try to do it in the least invasive way. what you are describing i frankly wouldn't want done to me but i don't know the circumstances well enough to offer an opinion and wouldn't be worth my opinion at this point. >> thanks very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you jury much, senator feinstein. i agree with what you said. >> welcome back to the committee, mr. comey. we are happy to have you here. this isn't the third time that you are being unanimously supported by the senate. let's hope that that is the case. after all. the report came back in may about your likely nomination and said that you are a full key vote for the democrats. at least in your case i don't believe that is a cause for concern on this side of the nile. it's also easy to forget that the director robert mueller began the service just one week before the terrorist attack changed forever. there was a fundamental reconfiguration and the fbi. since then, the congres