Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Doctors Participated in Torture, Committed Illegal Research

First of all, I'm tired of the BS of calling what CIA did "harsh techniques", or "rough interrogation" or similar euphemisms. What the CIA (and others) have done is torture, pure and simple. Waterboarding is torture. Slamming someone's head against the wall is torture. Keeping someone awake for prolonged periods of time is torture. The list goes on. So, this is an allegation by a watchdog that doctors participated in torture.

From the Guardian:

Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged. ...

PHR [Physicians for Human Rights] says health professionals participated at every stage in the development, implementation and legal justification of what it calls the CIA's secret "torture programme".
Read on here.

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