Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation

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*From Democracy Now interviews this morning...disturbing doesn't quite cover it. (video at link, as well as transcript)





A new report from Physicians for Human Rights accuses the Bush administration of conducting illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on prisoners in CIA custody. The report details how doctors, psychologists and other professionals monitored the effects of sleep deprivation, waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques on more than a dozen prisoners. It charges that CIA doctors and other medical personnel turned the prisoners into research subjects and collected data in order to study and refine those techniques, but did so under the guise of trying to protect the health of the detainees.


Guests:

Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights and the lead author of the new report 'Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the Enhanced Interrogation Program'

Dr. Allen Keller, director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and an associate professor of medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. He is a co-author of the Physicians for Human Rights report "Experiments with Torture."


AMY GOODMAN: A new report from Physicians for Human Rights accuses the Bush administration of conducting illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on prisoners in CIA custody. The report details how doctors, psychologists and other professionals monitored the effects of sleep deprivation, waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques on more than a dozen prisoners. It charges that CIA doctors and other medical personnel turned the prisoners into research subjects and collected data in order to study and refine those techniques, but did so under the guise of trying to protect the health of the detainees. The report argues that in determining how far a harsh interrogation could go, doctors, psychologists and physician’s assistants participated in justifying acts that had long been classified illegal, provided legal cover against prosecution, and helped designed future interrogation procedures.


CIA officials have rejected the conclusions of the report. Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in a statement, quote, "The report is just wrong...The CIA did not, as part of its past detention program, conduct human subject research on any detainee or group of detainees."

in full: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/8/experiments_in_torture_medical_group_accuses

[Deep13]

1. But the comparisons to Nazis and concentration camps are just hyperbole.

:sarcasm: :puke:

[Jefferson23]

2. I know, it's so creepy, gives me chills. n/t

[annm4peace]

3. In MN we are participating in June's Torture Awareness Month

[Jefferson23]

4. Excellent, thank you for posting the info. n/t