EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding

[kpete]

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding"

Wednesday 01 December 2010

by: Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding"?

The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called "pharmacologic waterboarding."

The US military administered the drug despite Pentagon knowledge that mefloquine caused severe neuropsychiatric side effects, including suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and anxiety. The drug was used on the prisoners whether they had malaria or not.

The revelation, which has not been previously reported, was buried in documents http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/detainees/ publicly released by the Defense Department (DoD) two years ago as part of the government's investigation into the June 2006 deaths of three Guantanamo detainees.

Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman, who was stationed at Guantanamo at the time of the suicides in 2006, and has presented evidence that demonstrates the three detainees could not have died by hanging themselves, noticed in the detainees' medical files that they were given mefloquine. Hickman has been investigating the circumstances behind the detainees' deaths for nearly four years.

more:
http://www.truth-out.org/controversial-drug-given-all-guantanamo-detainees-amounted-pharmacologic-waterboarding6558

[xchrom]

1. What diff? Nothing is going to come of it. Nt

[lovuian]

2. people will be reading this stuff like Nazis German torture

camps with experimenting with the minds and destroying them

[Angry Dragon]

3. This kinda goes along with that

Obama And GOPers Worked TOGETHER To KILLl Bush Torture PROBE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9669039

[ThomCat]

4. Yes it does.

Obama has absolutely no credibility regarding Guantanamo, Torture, the wars, and war crimes. :(

He was supposed to be restoring the rule of law immediately upon taking office. Instead, he has been actively protecting and defending torturers, and continuing the torture. We now know for damned sure he continued the medical torture program ... :cry:

Yes, restoring the rule of law... that was going to be his most important priority, the moment he took office... What ever happened to that? :(