CIA doctors face human experimentation claims

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa

Medical ethics group says physicians monitored 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and studied their effectiveness

Ed Pilkington in New York

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 September 2009 18.39 BST

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.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved than hitherto understood.

PHR says health professionals participated at every stage in the development, implementation and legal justification of what it calls the CIA's secret "torture programme".

:evilgrin:

And a big :spank: to those why didn't get that as :sarcasm:

a basic surgical kit and a pulse oxymeter to manage potentially fatal choking and brain damage.

Are they all idiots, or are most of us for believing that somehow it wasn't well-understood from the beginning that these forms of torture would turn high-value witnesses into vegetables.

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