(Middle East Eye) In 2006, then-Navy officer Ron DeSantis was an appointed attorney supporting the US military’s mission at Guantanamo Bay.
Not much is officially known about his months-long stint at the prison, which at its peak held nearly 800 Muslim men that were captured as part of the US-led war on terror.
But a recent interview from a former Guantanamo detainee helped shed some light on DeSantis’ time there. Mansoor Adayfi said in a podcast with the Empire Files that while he was being force-fed at the prison, he saw DeSantis laughing.
“Ron DeSantis was there watching us,” Adayfi said.
Middle East Eye reached out to another former detainee who said he could not remember whether or not he met DeSantis during his time there.
