Michael Hayden Defends 'Rectal Rehydration' as a 'medical procedure'

[markpkessinger]

Just how fucking sick ARE these people? (video at link)

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/12/11/lead-intv-hayden-senate-cia-torture-report.cnn.html

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. They are the party of Sociopaths....they don't have empathy...

this is what is dividing America...those with empathy and those without!

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. I wonder if Mike would enjoy that?

[HappyMe]

3. It could be used as a medical procedure,

but for him to suggest that is how it was used here is pretty asinine.

[Bjorn Against]

4. So what medical purpose does it have?

What doctor recommended it? Why was the procedure medically necessary to use on these prisoners? Was the procedure performed in accordance established medical guidelines used in hospitals around the world? For some reason I get the feeling Hayden would not want to answer these questions.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. An extremely limited one.

About the only time I can think that you might consider it would be if the patient's mouth was so badly effed up you couldn't place a line, and they were so incredibly dehydrated that their veins were all collapsed so you couldn't get an IV in place to simply give it to them intravenously. You might be able to hydrate them enough that way to get to where you could place an IV, I guess.

I really doubt any of their detainees fit that description, though. He's stretching farther than Stretch Armstrong here.

[Bjorn Against]

8. Did the report not say they used food as well?

I could see there may be some limited medical value when water is used, but I have a much harder time believing there is any medical value in shoving food up someone's ass.

[Horse with no Name]

11. actually you have to be careful even giving an enema

by introducing too much fluids and washing out electrolytes.

At a hospital I worked out, a child was killed when too much fluid was introduced in the rectum from an enema (everyone involved lost their medical and nursing licenses).

I personally can't see any medical value in it.

[Bjorn Against]

17. That poor kid, what an awful way to die

I take care of a child who has had to have a couple of enemas so I do recognize the medical benefit of an enema, but they should only be used when necessary and proper medical procedures need to be followed.

This sounds like it goes far beyond an enema however, this sounds to me like rape.

[seaglass]

16. Yes I believe hummus and pasta and I forget what else. Too horrifying. When I was a child I had

a few surgeries and my parents had to do enemas on me pre-surgery. Awful experience that will forever live with me. I can't believe we did this to people.

[moriah]

21. The doc's got their MDs from South Park, I think.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Pretty sure at that point they would go IO.

And yes, I understand you are trying to stretch it but as a nurse also, I honestly can't see any value of it at all.

[KingCharlemagne]

5. Whenever I hear any one arguing for rectal rehydration,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. (Hat tip to the ghost of Abraham Lincoln)

[MohRokTah]

6. Because cramming pureed food up somebody's ass is SO NUTRICIOUS!

Michael Hayden is a lying rapist motherfucker.

[Horse with no Name]

9. Not once in my 25 year career as a nurse

have I ever seen this done or even heard of it and I have worked with some very ill patients.

[kentuck]

10. Dr. Hayden, I presume?

This is one sick asshole, so to speak...

[ladjf]

13. Hayden's position that 'rectal re hydrations' was a needed 'medical procedure'

is way beyond preposterous. He is simply covering his disingenuous ass as he has always done.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Brothers in Arms?

One ran the NSA and CIA........ for many years
starting under Clinton in 99 and then ending with OBama for a short time.


The other ran the Gestapo, death camps and the SS...






NSA defenders ..... this is the guy that lead the. agency you have been defending

[markpkessinger]

15. Is Hayden one of the President's 'patriots' at the CIA? n/t

[7wo7rees]

18. Sicker than we have comprehension of.

Thank the heavens above.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. He should volunteer to demonstrate the wonders of the process. Show America you mean it, Mike.

nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. So, when is he going to have his procedure? Would be glad to make an appt. for him.

[NuclearDem]

22. I respect his opinion on the matter.

After all, he seems to be an expert on pulling things out of one's ass.