and turley fad because it doesn't provide an accurate portrayal of the overall health of the detainee population why change the name from hunger strike to long term non-religious fast the word hunger strike again does not accurately portray what their motivation is and so it was determined quite some time ago to call it non-religious fasting really because it seems to me like they're striking their indefinite detention especially those deemed innocent and cleared by police the word strike is is subjective what what are what is it there are striking we are providing them with three very nutritious meals a day as well as recreation and we are dedicated to the safe humane legal and transparent care of all of the detainees so any of those detainees that are in our care we we. are dedicated to their they're safe safe well i would imagine they're striking they're nothing in detention if i were in prison indefinitely i'd probably be striking to be conjecture on my part and speculate on their motivation it seems like a pretty clear motivation who made that decision to change the terminology t

process be done more humanely regrettably i'm not able to respond to a detainee's accusations of turley fed procedure but i can say with one hundred percent confidence we are complying with all of the guidance and. developed and that we do with a tremendous amount of care and safety so why can't the tapes of these procedures be released to the public but unfortunately that issues in litigation in washington and i'm. able to discuss that is actually the first detainee to take the force feeding case to a u.s. district judge who's actually going to hear the case that has jurisdiction over the j.a.t.'s do you have any comment on where that case stands i'd like to talk about the detainees in the communal setting and camp six who choose not to be internally fat and who choose to live a compliant detainee in the detainee population the detainees who choose to go in truly to be internally fat live in single cell. living conditions so that's their choice as a relates to force so extractions. in reality many of them are not forcibly extracted they go willingly. and compliantly to be internally fe

professor turley what is your reading of the legal basis for the action that's been taken in syria?certainly not a constitutional basis. this is yet another undeclared war from a president who says he doesn't have to consult, let alone get approval to go to war. we are launching attack against a foreign country. we are hitting targets within syria. it violates international law and it violates united states constitution. you know, the framers were students of war. they lived through a war. this is the very danger they wanted to avoid. by requiring declarations of war. all these questions you're having about how long it will be, is this a knife and gun attack? or is there something more serious? none of those questions are answered because we've never had the debate, let alone the declaration of war. >> well, we actually haven't had a declaration of war since world war ii and yet we seem to be able to -- we have an awful lot of war dead in this country seasons then. the president sent a letter to congress this afternoon saying that he said i directed these actions pursuant to my cons

doesn't mean we don't have one b if we have something when the general assembly opens when which shut turley irrelevant to this issue it is going to be a political plan and not a military plan. >> why do you think he said that because none of the 10 countries, u.s., u.k., germany, italy and denmark not one of them is going to send a ground troop there going to be left to the kurds and kurdish army and the iraqi army. >> and it's going to require us to provide the intelligence and air support to help them out. the other countries will supply advisors, i think they will supply arms and other supplies. basically suspects going to be our project. it does look like better than not having one. smaller than nato. turkey being right there is a nato ally directly effective. why isn't the entire alliance with us? >> why is it because nato says isis a problem for everybody. why isn't nato? >> i think many of the eastern european countries, i'm glad poland is in there they are happening and ukraine. there is a lot of rhetoric at this nato summit i think the president finally got his lines right about de

there is a story by jonathan turley if you want to read more on that. tragedy for civil liberties. on the sameece -- hisn eric holder legacy of racial politics is the headline. the author is a former u.s. attorney general and a former mayor of cincinnati, ohio. if you want to read that piece. the discussion surrounding air holder's-- of eric departure continues. tacticstalk about the of isis and the threat that isis poses to the united states. later, we talk with the muslim public affairs council. we will be right back. ♪ >> here are a few of the comments we have received from our viewers. >> i watched q and a. i suppose the most offensive thing about that whole hour was -- as the daughter -- youthodist minister have to wonder what in the heck is a methodist church in the south like? i wonder what her parents' positions are. i heard the whole hour, how she got to where she is. >> i want to start off by allowing c-span2 know that -- by allowing c-span to know that i do not allow any other selection on my cable besides this. 3.pan1, 2, and i want to show