This week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a report entitled "The Role of the Physician CIA Interrogation and Torture Rises Against Prisoners," which claimed that the CIA physicians, without respecting standards of medical ethics, conduct medical evaluations of detainees at locations before and during interrogation.
CIA Office of Medical Services (OMS) said that the method was not up to the torture, despite admitting that abusive techniques that could cause serious medical risks.
Isolation, loud music, constantly in indoor light or darkness, extreme cold temperatures, lack of food, and waterboarding just a few of the many abusive techniques were applied.
In June, Physicians for Human Rights accused the Bush administration changed the CIA detainees into research subjects.
International non-governmental organizations that medical professionals detailing how to perform the technique "improved interrogation" of detainees illegally and then collect data for studying and perfecting the techniques.
Research Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) written by Leonard S. Rubinstein, president of Physicians for Human Rights, and Brigadier General (retired) Stephen N. Xenakis, a former Army psychiatrist who now works for the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. The study was based on a secret document in 2004, which set out guidance on the CIA's Office of Medical Services for the interrogation of prisoners, released by the Obama administration.
In an article for Harper's, human rights lawyer Scott Horton notes that the JAMA study reinforces the notion that doctors CSO not only offers medical opinion on what is set to be torture but "give what is expected by their superiors: the green light to torture".
The study emphasizes that although the CSO approved the use of interrogation methods that are subject to increased medical restrictions, restrictions that do not consider the pain and suffering of the real and only take into account to minimize the chances of permanent physical damage caused.
They include endurance limit for exposure to a certain temperature, both expected to appear until hypothermia or hypothermia evidence of a reduction to 10% weight loss or evidence of significant malnutrition as a result of food restriction, and exposure to deafening sound.
The position allowed the pressure to 48 hours, with his hands tied prisoners no higher than his head, the weight is supported by the lower extremities, and injuries that already exist are not compounded. OMS guide also recommends that emergency resuscitation equipment is provided during waterboarding.
Although the guide that specifies that the physical condition of the detainee must be such that the intervention will not provide long-term effects, they ignore the professional literature about the potential health risks of these techniques.
"Cheating in this extraordinary affair associated with each other," Horton wrote. "The Justice Department lawyer torturers relying on CIA torture doctors to the conclusion that certain techniques do not cause severe pain in violation of the prohibition of torture in criminal law; CIA doctors rely on Justice Department lawyers to the same conclusion. Appears compact, and alert a prosecutor who will not hesitate to mention joint criminal enterprise. hard to see at this point who is more ethically repugnant behavior, although the evidence suggests that both are involved in malpractice so terrible that warrant formal disciplinary process. "
"The doctors torturers wish their identity is protected so that it can escape the natural consequences of their professional malpractice disgusting," said Horton concluded. "It helps us to understand why senior figures in the intelligence community are now pressing hard the Department of Justice to criminalize anyone who tries to uncover the identity of those involved. They say that those who are identified will be subject to 'terrorist'."
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