Exclusive: Senate Intel Committee to Consider PHR Findings on BUSHCO-Torture/Experiments

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Exclusive: Senate Intel Committee to Consider PHR Findings on Torture Experiments
By: Jeff Kaye Wednesday June 9, 2010 11:30 am

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s press office kindly returned my phone query the other day about her response to the revelations in the new Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) report, “Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program” . Sen. Feinstein’s response indicated that the Senate Intelligence Committee would examine PHR’s findings.

PHR’s investigation showed that doctors and psychologists involved in the Bush Administration’s CIA “enhanced interrogation” torture program apparently used high-value detainees as guinea pigs in experiments to determine how they could refine the torture techniques to get by the law. Of course, they were assisted in this by the lawyers of the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, and later Steven Bradbury. Then, in 2006, the Bush Administration had Congress rewrite the War Crimes Act to soften the restrictions against “biological experimentation.” I’ve been following this story actively (see here and here).

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This was the e-mail response from Sen. Feinstein’s office (emphasis added): . . .

“The Senate Intelligence Committee is conducting a review of the CIA detention and interrogation program,” Senator Feinstein said. “This review includes both the use of CIA medical personnel in administering coercive interrogation techniques and the effects of prolonged detention on the individuals in CIA custody. This is the most detailed and comprehensive review of the CIA detention and interrogation program ever conducted. The findings of the new report from Physicians for Human Rights will be considered in our review, and I will have further comment on this when the report is completed.”

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more:
http://firedoglake.com/2010/06/09/exclusive-senate-intel-committee-to-consider-phr-findings-on-torture-experiments/

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Believe it, Bush/Cheney have given the United States of America their very own Dr. Mengele:

...the Bush administration used medical personnel — including doctors, psychologists and physician assistants — to help justify acts that had long been classified by law and treaty as illegal or unethical and to redefine them as safe, legal and effective when used on terrorism suspects.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/950