On Sunday's MTP: Director of National Itelligences says..Doctors Involved in CIA Interrogations!

[KoKo]

(Re)Call the Doctor: Physicians Involved in CIA Interrogations?
By Spencer Ackerman - July 23, 2007, 2:39 PM

Blink and you'll miss it. But yesterday on Meet The Press, Admiral Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, seemingly disclosed something long suspected but never proven about the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques: interrogators receive advice from medical personnel in conducting their interrogations. When it came to light two years ago that psychiatrists and psychologists helped prepare interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, the revelation caused a huge scandal in the psychiatric community -- something that now looks set to repeat itself with physicians.

McConnell appeared on Tim Russert's Sunday chat show to reassure viewers that President Bush's new executive order for CIA interrogations prohibits torture. He stuck to that line consistently throughout his interview, but during one quick moment of elaboration, McConnell, perhaps inadvertently, disclosed something extremely significant:

When I was in a situation where I had to sign off, as a member of the process, my name to this executive order, I sat down with those who had been trained to do it, the doctors who monitor it, understanding that no one is subjected to torture. (Emphasis added)

Until now, no confirmation existed that "doctors monitored" CIA interrogations -- or indeed took part in any aspect of them.

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[EFerrari]

1. This has been a huge issue and especially for psychologists --

The APA convened a fake panel stacked with intelligence types to manufacture a statement letting them off the hook! The people on the panel who were not Pentagon plants are pissed as you know what at being manipulated in this way.

Amy Goodman has done more than one segment on this debate on DemocracyNow!, fwiw.

[KoKo]

4. Yes and so has Salon...but apparently that McConnell let it "slip"

is big news...because they wouldn't admit it. I heard that segment live yesterday and thought it was odd that McConnel would talk about it. Russert asked him if an American were captured would they get the same interrogation treatments..and McConnell evaded the question. :-(

BTW: The full article is better than what I could snip...worth the read.

[EFerrari]

5. Thanks! I'll go read.

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

2. Mengele lives!

:puke:

[JDPriestly]

3. Shades of the NAZIs

The next step is to conduct experiments to see what actually leads to death and what does not. This is unbelievable. First do no harm. What is it about "no harm" that these doctors do not understand.