CIA Made Doctors Torture Suspected Terrorists After 9/11, Taskforce Finds
Source: the guardian
Doctors and psychologists working for the US military violated the ethical codes of their profession under instruction from the defence department and the CIA to become involved in the torture and degrading treatment of suspected terrorists, an investigation has concluded.
The report of the Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres concludes that after 9/11, health professionals working with the military and intelligence services "designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees". Medical professionals were in effect told that their ethical mantra "first do no harm" did not apply, because they were not treating people who were ill.
The report lays blame primarily on the defence department (DoD) and the CIA, which required their healthcare staff to put aside any scruples in the interests of intelligence gathering and security practices that caused severe harm to detainees, from waterboarding to sleep deprivation and force-feeding.
The two-year review by the 19-member taskforce, Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror, supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations, says that the DoD termed those involved in interrogation "safety officers" rather than doctors. Doctors and nurses were required to participate in the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike, against the rules of the World Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Doctors and psychologists working for the DoD were required to breach patient confidentiality and share what they knew of the prisoner's physical and psychological condition with interrogators and were used as interrogators themselves. They also failed to comply with recommendations from the army surgeon general on reporting abuse of detainees...
An al-Qaida detainee at Guantanamo Bay in 2002: the DoD has taken steps to address concerns over practices at the prison in recent years
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/cia-doctors-torture-suspected-terrorists-9-11
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residen within the higher levels of the US Government, then of course they are not held culpable for their actions. 
... "we demand an investigation!" What the hay did the "Task Force" just say they are accusing physicians/psychiatrists of? Like teats on a boar hog, the Task Force is useless. Hell's bells, tell us something we DON'T know! If we're so corrupt we can't hold anyone who's perpetrating high crimes and misdemeanors accountable in this "government", can the medical authorities at least hold the doctors accountable for their breach of the Hippocratic Oath? Where does it say that they are permitted to disregard the oath if participating in torturing POWs during a war? Strip their right to practice medicine in the USA! Abolish their private practices and throw throw their asses in jail so they can't practice as mercenaries! Task forces, hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets of America and millions abroad... well Hell, the whole damn electorate, have been and continue to be disregarded as "focus groups."
This isn't a "New World Order." It's an "Old World of total DysOrder! 
That's why this shit can't be fixed with one more law, one more committee. One more election. One more judicial appointment. Because after you've done all that, the stink is still inside of it all waiting to corrupt anew.
If we are to be free of it, it must be abandoned and left to shrivel and die.
- Without us and our blood, it doesn't exist.
