The Journal of the American Medical Association today published a report on the role of CIA doctors and psychiatrists in developing innovative torture techniques during the Bush-Cheney administration—techniques which are presumably still in use today.
Notes Andrew Sullivan (who also posts highlights of the AMA's subscribers-only report), "These individuals need to be stripped of their medical licenses and prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions. Fat chance under Obama."
See also this previous Boing Boing post, an interview with Physicians for Human Rights on the same topic earlier this year: Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees.
[illo: Beschizza]
