With yet another torture angle (this involving medical professionals in violation of their ethical responsibilities) I can’t help thinking about Dick Durbin and his reference to totalitarian regimes, including the Nazis. Let me plainly state that the reports about psychiatrists and psychologists involved in torture cited above are a gross violation of medical ethics - and I say this regardless of whatever the American Psychological Association may conclude regarding the use of psychologists in torture (it is hard to believe this is even necessary to state). The roughly 750 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay are denied their rights under the Geneva Convention by the United States. Of the 750, over 200 Guantanamo prisoners have been freed after confinement and, according to the Red Cross, psychological torture, presumably because they were found to be of no terrorist information value (that is, they imprisoned and tortured the wrong guy). Only four detainees of the 750 face charges in what is approaching 3-1/2 years.
It is indefensible. It is a violation of what America stands for at home and in the world. It is a violation of human rights.
Again, I say, ‘it is hard to believe this is even necessary to state.’
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