Ex-CIA director defends rectal rehydration

[Jesus Malverde]

Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Thursday defended revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats that the agency used rectal rehydration on detainees.

“These were medical procedures,” Hayden said during a tense interview on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper." He added that the method was used because detainees were dehydrated, and that giving them intravenous fluids with needles would be dangerous.

“I’m not a doctor,” he said. “What I am told is that this is one of the ways that the body is rehydrated.”

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/226883-ex-cia-director-defends-rectal-rehydration

No shame and no fear.

[uppityperson]

1. stuffing humus up your butt has NOTHING to do with dehydration treatment. eom

[Autumn]

4. Yeah but using a needle would be dangerous, maybe even deadly.

Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden was told this.

The spin is just getting so fucking stoopid everywhere I want to

[AtomicKitten]

2. Their lies are OFFENSIVE.

[Horse with no Name]

3. I've been a nurse for 25 years and can't ever recall having to do it this way

In fact, we were warned that even giving necessary enemas and such can be harmful because you can irritate the vagal nerve as well as releasing a large amount of liquid rectally can alter the electrolyte balance.

So...unless Dr. Mengele was supervising, I am pretty sure this isn't a practical way to accomplish rehydration.

[SamKnause]

5. Fucking liar !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The CIA is a terrorists organization.

They have stirred up shit all over the globe 'keeping us safe'.

They have tortured, assassinated, led coups, started civil wars, and the list goes on and on.

The United States of America can never be Democratic Republic as long as the CIA is in control.

[Control-Z]

6. As far as I know,

that is an enema, which does just the opposite. How the fuck would that hydrate or feed a person? Such bullshit. It forces everything out. Not to mention it causes extreme discomfort and painful cramps. And then there is the humiliation. Yeah. That. The humiliation. Fuckers.

Big fucking fuckers.

[Jesus Malverde]

8. ‘Sloshing Up’

“Regarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open up the IV tubing, the flow will self-regulate, sloshing up the large intestines,” he wrote.

[Control-Z]

11. You believe that?

I don't.

[Rex]

7. "I was told." God the monsters and their lies.

Looks like Cheney and Hayden are birds of a feather.

[Warpy]

9. Getting your dinner shoved up there is a bit different, Mike.

and that's what they were doing to the prisoners, homerotic rape combined with withholding food.

Hint: there is a reason you shove that nightly prime rib into your cakehole instead of your asshole, Mike.

Rectal rehydration is used in medical emergencies when there is no hope of accessing a vein, like in serious, full body burns.

Michael, honey, maybe you better work on keeping the top orifice shut for a while. That will allow all the shit you're full of to start draining out of the lower one.

[Jesus Malverde]

10. DUZY DUZY AND MORE DUZY!..NT

[kevinmc]

12. guess giving them a glass of water would have been to hard n/t

[BootinUp]

13. Hayden's almost as bad as Cheney. nt

[GeorgeGist]

14. Dumb fulks will believe it.

[adirondacker]

15. I'm not a doctor, but what I'm told is the CIA might be run by a bunch of psychopaths and the cure..

is a Complete Purge!

Put Valerie Plame in charge already!

[RedCappedBandit]

16. Scumbag piece of filth.