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Red Cross: Med Workers Complicit in Gitmo Torture

Professionals told CIA interrogators to stop, go

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(Newser) – The Red Cross is accusing medical personnel of deep involvement in CIA torture at Guantanamo, calling it “a gross breach of medical ethics,” the New York Times reports. Medical professionals monitored procedures such as waterboarding, telling interrogators to “continue, to adjust, or stop particular methods,” finds a Red Cross report. The document, obtained and examined by Mark Danner in the New York Review of Books, claims that medical professionals “condoned and participated in ill treatment.”

A CIA spokesman wouldn’t comment on the report, but said that President Obama has banned all interrogation techniques not sanctioned by the Army Field Manual, and that Leon Panetta, the new CIA director, is enforcing that order. Panetta has also made clear, however, that no one will be investigated for interrogations during the Bush administration.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, top, and Walid bin Attash, center in this courtroom drawing, say that medical professionals were present while they were tortured.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, top, and Walid bin Attash, center in this courtroom drawing, say that medical professionals were present while they were tortured.   (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)
In this image reviewed by the US military, a Guantanamo detainee sleeps on a mattress on the floor of his cell, at Camp 5 detention facility, at the US Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In this image reviewed by the US military, a Guantanamo detainee sleeps on a mattress on the floor of his cell, at Camp 5 detention facility, at the US Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
CIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testifies, Feb. 5, 2008. The Senate has joined the House in voting to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.
CIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testifies, Feb. 5, 2008. The Senate has joined the House in voting to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.   (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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A disturbing confirmation of our worst fears about medical professionals’ involvement in directing and modulating cruel treatment and torture. - M. Gregg Bloche, Georgetown Law Professor

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Timinator2K
Apr 7, 09 8:02 AM CDT
Funny how nobody gives a damn that our people get BEHEADED OR, EXECUTED yet we'd better not induce terrorists to talk by using non-life threatening interogation techniques. MORONS. Reply
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hannesh
Apr 7, 09 8:19 AM CDT
You would stoop to their level, by doing that...
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NutsInNY
Apr 7, 09 8:40 AM CDT
Al-Timinator2k hates us for our freedoms.
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Collusive
Apr 7, 09 1:34 PM CDT
the techniques are life threatening, over 200 captives have been killed in U.S. custody since the war began.
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Collusive
Apr 7, 09 1:45 PM CDT
also, how would you expect to get valuable information out of a frightened afgan farmer who has been sleep and sensory deprived for three days? ask any neurologist, after that kind of abuse, you're on your way to insanity. also, ask general colin powell about interrogation techniques...their false withdrawals ended his career in bush administration.
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