say they have resorted to force feeding detainees through feeding tubes for more of the strike jason leopold lead investigator investigative reporter for truthout joins us now welcome there jason so i laid off want to start with asking you all what we know about the prisoners health conditions. well what we know is is what is coming from their attorneys that the their health is rapidly deteriorating their sugar levels are very low some of them are trying to or taking spoonfuls of honey to keep their sugar levels up but the this secrecy surrounding everything pertaining to guantanamo continues so it's very difficult to get a real accurate picture from certainly from the government about what is happening i mean there's a clear dispute between what the government says is happening and what the prisoners are telling their attorneys that pertains to health it also pertains to the number of prisoners that are actually engaged in the hunger strike now in order to starve yourself for so long you have to be pretty desperate what do we know jason about how we got to this point to this point that the