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In a 27-page report, "Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program" (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has brought into sharp focus the role played by US medical personnel in torture and human experimentation.

http://tinyurl.com/359ulez



Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush

By Stephen Soldz

Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture program, there was a related program experimenting with and researching the application of the torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25664.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Global Index Finds World has Become Less Peaceful
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08-2

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Retired General: "We Have to Accept the Fact That We Did Torture People"

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "Torture is still happening, says Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez of black sites around the world that the Obama administration has yet to close down. Sanchez was the highest-ranking Latino in the U.S. Army when he retired in 2006, after having been commander of ground forces in Iraq during a critical period of the war - and during the period when abuses at Abu Ghraib occurred. Since his retirement, he has called for a truth commission to investigate torture, and, he says, 'Americans need to face up to' what happened there."

http://www.truthout.org/retired-general-we-have-accept-fact-that-we-did-torture-people-video60283

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Doctors seek probe of alleged torture experiments

MSNBC

Several civil liberties groups are demanding the White House investigate whether doctors conducted medical experiments on terror detainees during harsh interrogations led by the CIA under the Bush administration. Physicians for Human Rights filed a legal complaint Wednesday with the Health and Human Services Department. The group was joined by other non-government organizations, including Amnesty International USA...

http://tinyurl.com/38jse8k



Did Bush and Co. do medical research on detainees?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/21/10

As time goes by, the record of the Bush administration gets worse and worse. It could turn out that the most egregious offense of the Bush-esque Obama administration will be that its Justice Department let Bush-Cheney & Co. off scot-free. It’s not enough that the last gang to occupy the Executive Branch got us into two illegal wars, accumulated autocratic powers, violated our civil liberties, and tortured suspects. Now it appears that it kicked things up a notch...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1006f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Advance New York Law to Stop Doctors from Participating in
Torture & Body

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/383/t/4084/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1181681

http://whenhealersharm.org/pass-ny-anti-torture-bill/


Informant: Mr. Korea



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