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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 09:03 PM Dec 2014

Did CIA torture violate Nuremberg ban on human experimentation? Physician's group thinks so.

WASHINGTON — CIA health professionals may have committed war crimes by collecting and analyzing data on brutally interrogated detainees in potential violation of U.S. and international bans on research on human subjects without their consent, a human rights organization said Tuesday.

Physicians for Human Rights called on President Barack Obama and Congress to establish a commission of inquiry to examine the participation of CIA and private medical personnel in the interrogation program, including possible breaches of domestic and international laws.

“The CIA relied upon health professionals at every step to commit and conceal the brutal and systematic torture of national security detainees,” the organization said in an analysis of a four-year study of the agency’s interrogation program released last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. “While most of the acts detailed . . . violate international human rights and domestic laws prohibiting torture, several of these alleged violations can also constitute war crimes.”

In raising possible war crimes by medical personnel, the analysis cited bans on experimentation on prisoners that grew out of the trials of Nazi officials and doctors held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II.




Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/12/16/250260_did-cia-torture-violate-nuremberg.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

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Did CIA torture violate Nuremberg ban on human experimentation? Physician's group thinks so. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2014 OP
K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Dec 2014 #1
The war criminal of a Dick does not give a flying fugg malaise Dec 2014 #2
"Rag *ead*s" is an offensive term, malaise. I know you used it sardonically, still. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #3
Get a grip dhol82 Dec 2014 #5
Yes, sardonically, like I said?? Grip that. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #6
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #4
Years ago the TV show KT2000 Dec 2014 #7
Let the prosecutions begin. JEB Dec 2014 #8
Fuck yeah it did. That was the point. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #9
They got Capone on tax evasion. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #10
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Dec 2014 #11

malaise

(267,784 posts)
2. The war criminal of a Dick does not give a flying fugg
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:06 PM
Dec 2014

He's says his vengeance is not torture even if it was considered torture for others.

So what if he violated Nuremberg - those rag heads attacked America on 9/11
So what if 25% of the detainees had nothing to do with anything - the Dick does not care.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
7. Years ago the TV show
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:37 PM
Dec 2014

Law & Order: Criminal Intent addressed the issue of medical personnel and their involvement in torture. A psychologist had advised on methods of torture. She used some of those techniques on a patient after returning to the US. He killed someone and as I recall she was arrested for creating the conditions that made him a killer.

They also had a show about hiding suspected terrorists in New York prisons and torturing them too.

I just wonder why professional groups did not come out years ago to address what was going on. It has been known and even represented in out TV shows.

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
10. They got Capone on tax evasion.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:34 AM
Dec 2014

I suppose it's reasonable to get torturing murderers on some technicality about scientific experimentation.

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