Classic signs of inverted totalitarianism bubbling away in the USofA...
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By Kevin Gosztola Monday November 4, 2013
The Dissenter
Following the September 11th attacks, physicians and other
medical professionals, “particularly psychologists,” were involved in the
“design and administration” of harsh treatment and torture. This conduct was “in clear conflict with
established international and national professional principles and laws,” a new
report from a task force convened by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession
(IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations finds.
The report details how medical professionals working for the
CIA and United States military were directed to deviate from professional
standards and ethical conduct, which they are expected to follow. It calls
attention to the role that medical personnel played in inflicting torture and
causing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in prisons like Guantanamo Bay,
Abu Ghraib or various secret prisons operated by the CIA.
The US Justice Department played a key role in this
deviation by approving “interrogation methods” that constituted torture.
Prisoners captured were also classified in the “war on terror” as “unlawful
combatants,” and were not considered individuals who qualified as prisoners of
war under the Geneva Conventions.
See also the new documentary: Doctors of the Dark Side.
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