Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program

[yurbud]

How many different ways do these war crime and atrocities stories have to come out before the Obama administration will prosecute the Bushies for shaming our country? Does there have to be video on TV of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld raping a child on the White House lawn before they will act?

"We're dealing with a special breed of person here," Wolfowitz said about the war on terror detainees only four days before signing the new directive.

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The Wolfowitz directive also changed other rules regarding waivers of informed consent. After the scandals over the CIA's MKULTRA program and the Tuskegee experiments on African-Americans suffering from syphilis, Congress passed legislation known as the Common Rule to provide protections to human research subjects.

The Common Rule "requires a review of proposed research by an Institutional Review Board (IRB), the informed consent of research subjects, and institutional assurances of compliance with the regulations."

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The Nuremberg Code, which was a response to the Nazi atrocities, made "the voluntary consent of the human subject ... absolutely essential." However, the Wolfowitz directive softened a requirement of strict compliance to this code, instructing researchers simply to be "familiar" with its contents.

http://www.truth-out.org/wolfowitz-directive-legal-cover-human-experimentation-detainees64184

[OnyxCollie]

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