Originally published July 21 2005
Former Guantanamo interrogators say doctors helped extract information from prisoners
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Pentagon and mental health experts are discussing the ethical implications of doctors at Guantanamo Bay assisting in the interrogation of detainees, reports The New York Times, but a Pentagon spokesperson said there was no ethical dilemma because doctors were not treating patients but acting as behavioral scientists.
Former interrogators at Guantanamo Bay say military doctors there helped them conduct and refine coercive interrogations of detainees in hopes of making them more cooperative and willing to provide information; Pentagon and mental health professionals are examining ethical issues involved; former interrogators say military doctors advised them on ways of increasing psychological duress on detainees; authors of article in The New England Journal of Medicine say program was explicitly designed to increase fear and distress among detainees as means to obtain intelligence; accounts shed light on how interrogations were conducted and raise new questions about boundaries of medical ethics in nation's fight against terrorism; Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman claims doctors advising interrogators were not covered by ethics strictures because they were not treating patients but rather acting as behavioral scientists
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