Healthcare's Role In Torture - New England Patriots Forums

***Leave No Doubt*** · 05-28-2009, 05:52 PM

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The U.S. Department of Justice gave the ACLU other documents [4] this month that suggest the cables are among nearly 550 interrogation-related cables sent from field stations to CIA headquarters between April and December 2002. Among those analyzing the new documents are National Public Radio's Ari Shapiro [5], the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman [6] and Firedoglake's Marcy Wheeler [7].

The documents are the latest installment of an ongoing story about the role of doctors and psychologists in the government's efforts to pry information from suspected terrorists. Professional organizations of doctors, nurses, public health practitioners and psychologists have stated their opposition to health professionals' involvement in torture. "The AMA has taken the clear stand that the participation of physicians in torture and interrogation is a violation of core ethical values," the American Medical Association said in a statement last Friday. Last month, the AMA sent a letter to President Barack Obama reiterating, as it did during the Bush administration, that the association's ethical code prohibits physicians from participating in torture or coercive interrogation.

However, there is evidence that health personnel, at least some of them physicians, have been involved in interrogations. For example Col. Thomas M. Pappas, former chief of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib, who was interviewed as part of the Taguba investigation [8], testified that a psychiatrist and another doctor monitored interrogations [9] at the prison and had the final say in what aspects of the interrogation plan were implemented.

The question raised by the cables is, How deep was the involvement of physicians or other health professionals in the actual interrogations at CIA "black sites" such as the one where Abu Zubaydah was held

That whole cable system is astounding-all of it wired directly to the CIA.
Do CIA Cables Show Doctors Monitoring Torture? - ProPublica

But it gets even more interesting. Remember the 2 psychologists who were named as being heavily invloved in masterminding the this whole torture process?
Well it seems they've disappeared.

Has Consulting Firm For CIA Gone MIA? - ProPublica