Posted on 01/05/2005 9:19:16 PM PST by crushelits
Medical Workers Helped Tailor Interrogations of Detainees, Report Finds
U.S. Army doctors violated the Geneva Conventions by helping intelligence officers carry out abusive interrogations at military detention centers, perhaps participating in torture, according to a report in today's edition of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
Medical personnel helped tailor interrogations to the physical and mental conditions of individual detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the report. It says that medical workers gave interrogators access to patient medical files, and that psychiatrists and other physicians collaborated with interrogators and guards who, in turn, deprived detainees of sleep, restricted them to diets of bread and water and exposed them to extreme heat and cold.
"Clearly, the medical personnel who helped to develop and execute aggressive counter-resistance plans thereby breached the laws of war," says the four-page article labeled "Perspective."
"The conclusion that doctors participated in torture is premature, but there is probable cause for suspecting it."
The report was written by M. Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and by Jonathan H. Marks, a London barrister who is a bioethics fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins. It is based on interviews with more than two dozen military personnel and on a review of documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oh look! Another paper with an abuse story scheduled for the day of the Gonzalez hearings...
What a coinkidink!
Oh, for petes sake.....the MSM is having it's way RIGHT before the Gonzalez hearings, aren't they......I hope the American people SLAP them down ROYALLY.....these poor detainees are STILL ALIVE, AREN'T THEY?
Can you say "Media collaborating with the DNC"?
Just a coincidence, I'm sure...
LOL....MEDIA is an ARM of the DNC!
How on earth did the WashPost get ahold of this information ..?? And .. why on earth would this data be in the NEJournal of Med ..?? This just doesn't sound right to me.
This is just another scam of some kind .. another attack from the SLIMY MEDIA.
Hey! I just noticed that one of the author's is an adjunct professor at John's Hopkins.
Isn't that the same school that did a survey and claimed that there were over 100,000 dead civilians as a result of the Iraq war?
Couldn't be they have an agenda or anything?
Formatting is our friend - BAD Sarge, bad BAD Sarge!!
Make that BOTH authors.
(Read the whole thing before you post, nuff.)
oink
"How did they help torture them? How?"
I can honestly say I don't care. Seriously.
But why would the NEJM publish such a report ..?? Why wouldn't it be considered classified or secret information ..??
didnt they see my bumper sticker..."Be Nice to Terrorrists"?
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