Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture - New Report

[Hissyspit]

Source: Wired

Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture
By Spencer Ackerman
April 26, 2011  |  2:22 pm  | 

They explained away the bone fractures, didn’t ask what caused the lacerations, and called the hallucinations routine. Rather than blowing the whistle, medical professionals entrusted with the care of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay turned a blind eye when there were clear indications of abuse.

That’s according to a newly published report from two physicians with unprecedented access to the medical records of nine Gitmo detainees.

Writing in the online journal PLoS Medicine, Physicians for Human Rights senior medical adviser Vincent Iacopino and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist now in private practice, found that medical personnel at Guantanamo concealed mental and physical ailments that signaled abusive treatment.

The report — which represents the first independent review of any Guantanamo detainee’s medical record — is the clearest evidence yet that members of the base’s medical staff were complicit in the torture regime there.

Read more: http://m.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/gitmo-docs-torture/

[sakabatou]

1. I'm not surprised. Just angry.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. For those who won't read the entire article, I think, perhaps, this is germaine.....

Xenakis is dismayed by what he’s found. “Medics have an independent, professional responsibility to identify and report incidences of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture,” he says. The great majority of the medical lassitude he says he’s witnessed occurred between 2002 and 2006. But, he says, “the implications of this conduct, including the fact that the medics did not identify it, still has an effect on what happens there.”

[EFerrari]

5. That's right. The study had no access to and does not address

the open black site at Bagram.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Perhaps you could access & study it?

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

8. Dispatching an English teacher to Bagram is silly but still more than

what is being done now. Pretty sad state of affairs.

[Hissyspit]

10. It says "hid" in the headline.

What's your point? That it's o.k. For Gitmo to still be open?

[EFerrari]

4. When people get upset because Brad Manning bucked the system

they need to remember the profound corruption that system has come to represent.

[louslobbs]

9. K&R your comment and thread.

Lou

[InkAddict]

7. I'm surprised the records don't also include:

"Dictated for documentation purposes but not reviewed/signed to expedite delivery" Auto-faxed off with lots and lots of strategic blank lines.

[SoapBox]

11. There is a spot in hell waiting those that tortured and those that stood by and...

allowed it to happen.

All are guilty of crimes against humanity.

[lovuian]

12. This is UnAmerican and this is SO WRONG

what did they think ....this is Bush's and Rumsfeld's fault