Red Cross: Med Workers Complicit in Gitmo Torture

Professionals told CIA interrogators to stop, go

By Gabriel Winant, Newser User

Posted Apr 7, 2009 7:31 AM CDT

(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... Read full story »

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