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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 agencys 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.
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)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.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)dhol82
(9,351 posts)He was channeling the Dick.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)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.
JEB
(4,748 posts)It really is the only true way forward.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)I suppose it's reasonable to get torturing murderers on some technicality about scientific experimentation.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Thanks, kpete.