DoD & CIA Forced Doctors to Participate in Torture of Detainees

November 5th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

(Susanne Posel) The Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMP) have hosted a meeting of a 19 expert panel to discuss how healthcare professionals were used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to design and be involved in the administration of “harsh treatment and torture” of detained “suspected terrorists” in detention centers owned by the US government.

The report produced by the Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (TPMP-NSDC) stated that after 9/11, doctors working with military and intelligence agencies were integral in the design and “participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees.” Both the IMP and the Open Society Foundation (OSF) analyzed public records from doctors who were “improperly demanded” for service to the US Armed Forces to torture suspected terrorists. Gerald Thomson, member of the TPMP-NSDC and professor of medicine emeritus for Columbia University stated: “The American public has a right to know that the covenant with its physicians to follow professional ethical expectations is firm regardless of where they serve.” Thomson explained: “It’s clear that in the name of national security the military trumped that covenant, and physicians were transformed into agents of the military and performed acts that were contrary to medical ethics and practice. We have a responsibility to make sure this never happens again.”

In detainee prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, use torture as a standard to extract confessions and information from prisoners:

• Hypothermia

• Stress positions

• Waterboarding

• “Enhanced” torture techniques Doctors and psychologists were on-hand to assist the US Armed Forces to rewrite ethical codes so that the practice of torture and degrading treatment were common place.

Those healthcare professionals at the detention centers were called “safety officers” who would:

• Assist in force feeding of prisoners during hunger strikes

• Breach doctor/patient confidentiality

• Kept abuse of detainees secret from the Army Surgeon General (AGS) Those working with the CIA and DoD were told not to view the detainees as patients; the doctors were told 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.”

David Rothman, president of the IMAP, said: “Putting on a uniform does not and should not abrogate the fundamental principles of medical professionalism.’Do no harm’ and ‘put patient interest first’ must apply to all physicians regardless of where they practice.” Indeed, the TPMP-NSDC will seek a full investigation into the full extent of involvement of the medical profession in detention centers. The group is also admonishing the Senate intelligence Committee (SIC) review their report and make a formal inquiry into CIA practices. In addition, the IMAP maintains that rules need to be clear as to ensure doctors and psychiatrists working for the military are mandated to abide by the ethical obligations of their profession.

Doctors, nurses and psychiatrists should be strictly prohibited from participating in interrogation techniques and practices, “sharing information from detainees’ medical records with interrogators, or participating in force-feeding, and they should be required to report abuse of detainees.” Another report issued earlier this year outlines the most “comprehensive record of detainee treatment” which found that the US was guilty of using torturous methods to extract information from suspects.

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