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CIA doctors face human experimentation claims
Guardian ^ | 2 September 2009 | Ed Pilkington

Posted on 09/02/2009 11:12:11 AM PDT by Ben Mugged

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 non-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".

The American Medical Association, the largest body of physicians in the US, said it was in open dialogue with the Obama administration and other government agencies over the role of doctors. "The participation of physicians in torture and interrogation is a violation of core ethical values," it said.

The most incendiary accusation of PHR's latest report, Aiding Torture, is that doctors actively monitored the CIA's interrogation techniques with a view to determining their effectiveness, using detainees as human subjects without their consent. The report concludes that such data-gathering was "a practice that approaches unlawful experimentation".

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: torture; waronterror
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Seems a doctor's presence was to prevent any harm not to monitor harm.
1 posted on 09/02/2009 11:12:12 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
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The report concludes that such data-gathering was "a practice that approaches unlawful experimentation".

Let us know when it actually gets there, you POS...now all the libs will be crying Nazi Concentration Camp Experimentation...rotten lying bstrds...

2 posted on 09/02/2009 11:15:09 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it." - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL)
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To: Ben Mugged

Looks like our Speakers work on proving the CIA are liars.


3 posted on 09/02/2009 11:15:16 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Ben Mugged

Al Qaeda experimented with removing peoples’ heads while they were alive.

I don’t recall the human rights’ groups denouncing Al Qaida.


4 posted on 09/02/2009 11:16:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Ben Mugged

Their site looks like they were set up just for this purpose.

http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/


5 posted on 09/02/2009 11:16:21 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Ben Mugged

Like that matters.


6 posted on 09/02/2009 11:16:24 AM PDT by El Sordo
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To: Ben Mugged

PHR is a Soros front.


7 posted on 09/02/2009 11:17:45 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Ben Mugged

“Physicians for Human Rights” = 3 med school flunkies living in a basement with a fax machine.


8 posted on 09/02/2009 11:19:16 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Ben Mugged

The doctors were there to make sure the prisoners got medication when they were sick, were getting could nutritious meals, were getting plenty of excercise and sleep.

From folks I have spoken to that lived and worked down there (3 of them), the prisoners were in better shape than the guards.


9 posted on 09/02/2009 11:20:32 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: Ben Mugged

Bravo Sierra!

Approaching means nothing.


10 posted on 09/02/2009 11:20:56 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Ben Mugged

The Dems are going to push this until it ends in
violence. God may have built a self destruct program into
leftists. They don’t know when to stop talking.


11 posted on 09/02/2009 11:21:27 AM PDT by Hans
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To: xcamel

Probably went to med school in Cuba!
What new lows these folks won’t reach to further their agenda?
I see them breathless with the potential end of the United States of America!


12 posted on 09/02/2009 11:22:10 AM PDT by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: Ben Mugged

Come on. It’s the Guardian.

About as believable as Al Gore and the Obamaloon.


13 posted on 09/02/2009 11:22:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: NativeNewYorker

Physicians for Human Rights, 2 Arrow Street, Suite 301, Cambridge, MA 02138 | Tel 617.301.4200 | Fax 617.301.4250


14 posted on 09/02/2009 11:24:22 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: Ben Mugged

total fake:

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15 posted on 09/02/2009 11:24:41 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: edcoil

I really dont understand why obama and company want to break down all our defence structures,,, but leaves the Black Panther’s scott free to do as they want and wish.

Anyone who wants to destroy america, he supports....

yet we the stupid populace think its okay to keep him on as “president” of America....all his acts are treasonous.
Should be impeached for that reason.


16 posted on 09/02/2009 11:28:50 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: Ben Mugged

Oh please!....What the hell is this?....Obama’s Twilight Zone?


17 posted on 09/02/2009 11:30:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: jessduntno
The report concludes that such data-gathering was "a practice that approaches unlawful experimentation".

OK. The speed limit is 70 MPH. I'm driving 68 MPH. There is no doubt that I'm approaching unlawful behavior. Shame on me.

18 posted on 09/02/2009 11:39:00 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Ben Mugged

That’s what I thought.


19 posted on 09/02/2009 11:48:27 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Ben Mugged

I wish this ‘human rights’ groups would investigate the Muslim Murderers!


20 posted on 09/02/2009 11:50:17 AM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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