IN ATTACHED VIDEO DICK CHENEY DESCRIBES CIA TORTURE AS MEDICAL CARE ...SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON CIA TORTURE DESCRIBES MEDICAL PERSONELLS INTIMATE ROLE IN TOTURE. After a doctor X-rayed one prisoners feet and determined they were badly broken, another physician recommended that he could be made to stand for 52 hours. Only when one detainee stopped being able to see out of one of his eyes did a doctor suggest stopping the physical torture affecting that area. A team of doctors decided that prisoners could be waterboarded — which simulates drowning — up to three times per day. These are just a few of the ways scientists and medical doctors were directly involved in the CIAs torture program, as revealed in the Senate Select Comittee on Intelligence report.. The torture could not proceed [without] medical supervision, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and author, wrote on Twitter. The medical profession was deeply embedded in this inhumanity. While a small team of psychologists designed the program, dozens of other medical professionals oversaw it. Those who watched as prisoners were cut, bruised, and subjected to anal feeding usually made recommendations that led to people being harmed as much as possible, intervening only to prevent them from dying. The two psychologists who developed the CIAs torture program — Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen — formed a company called Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and got more than $80 million from the government for their services. Designing A Torture Company Mitchell and Jessen drew on their military experience and several 1960s psychological theories on suffering and depression to craft their torture techniques, according to a 2009 New York Times story. When the torture outlined in the CIA report got so bad that one detainees vision began to deteriorate the doctor present only intervened so that he could be able to see for the purposes of further questioning. We have a lot riding upon his ability to see, CIA officers wrote, in a cable. (The detainee eventually lost one eye completely.) The Office of Medical Services, the agency designed to advise the US State Department on health issues and provide healthcare to the US government, decided when detainees lacerations and broken bones were sufficiently healed so the interrogators could keep torturing them. Physicians told CIA officers what temperature water they should use to waterboard detainees and suggested they use saline solution instead of plain water so as to not risk prisoners being killed by water poisoning. In a book released in October, New York Times reporter James Risen says that the American Psychological Association worked with the Bush administration for years to provide cover for its torture methods.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:48:46 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015