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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:18 PM Jun 2015

CIA's Human Experimentation Requires Prosecution - rootsaction.org

CIA's Human Experimentation Requires Prosecution
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The Guardian today made public a CIA document allowing the agency's director to "approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research."[1]

At Guantanamo, the CIA gave huge doses of the terror-inducing drug mefloquine to prisoners without their consent,[2] as well as the supposed truth serum scopolamine.[3] Former Guantanamo guard Joseph Hickman has documented the CIA's torturing people, sometimes to death, and can find no explanation other than research.[4]

Non-consensual experimentation on institutionalized children and adults was common in the United States before, during, and after the U.S. and its allies prosecuted Nazis for the practice in 1947. The tribunal created the Nuremberg Code, standards for medical practice that were immediately ignored back home. Some American doctors considered it "a good code for barbarians."[5]

The code begins: "Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity." A similar requirement is included in the CIA's rules, but has not been followed, even as doctors have assisted with such torture techniques as waterboarding.

Congress has busily re-banned torture a number of times in recent years. Now it must drop that charade and instead demand that the Attorney General enforce the anti-torture statute, which made torture a felony before George W. Bush ever became president.

Torture has not ended and won't as long as it's not punished.[6] An attorney general could be questioned and threatened with impeachment until our laws are enforced.

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Resources:
1. "Guardian: "CIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/15/cia-torture-human-experimentation-doctors?CMP=ema_565

2. "Truthout:" Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding" http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/253:exclusive-controversial-drug-given-to-all-guantanamo-detainees-akin-to-pharmacologic-waterboarding

3. "Truthout:" New Revelations Suggest DoD Cover-Up Over Detainee Drugging Charges http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/11640-new-revelations-suggest-dod-cover-up-over-detainee-drugging-charges

4." David Swanson: http://warisacrime.org/content/we-murdered-some-folks-guantanamo ""We murdered some folks" in Guantanamo http://warisacrime.org/content/we-murdered-some-folks-guantanamo

"Talk Nation Radio:" Joseph Hickman on Deadly Human Experimentation at Guantanamo Bay http://davidswanson.org/node/4657

5. Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059427-against-their-will

6. "War Is A Crime: "Ongoing Torture http://warisacrime.org/ongoingtorture

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CIA's Human Experimentation Requires Prosecution - rootsaction.org (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP

Human Experimentation: a CIA Habit Octafish Jun 2015 #1

This needs spread far and wide. nt Mnemosyne Jun 2015 #2

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2015 #3

Octafish

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1. Human Experimentation: a CIA Habit

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:43 PM

Jun 2015

Thank you for an excellent article and bibliography, Panich52. We the People absolutely should prosecute torture at CIAFBINSADIA and every other place the traitors practice. David Swanson wrote about this very subject today...

Mocking the Nuremberg Code

Human Experimentation: a CIA Habit

by DAVID SWANSON
CounterPunch, JUNE 16, 2015

The Guardian on Monday made public a CIA document allowing the agency’s director to “approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research.”

Human what?

At Guantanamo, the CIA gave huge doses of the terror-inducing drug mefloquine to prisoners without their consent, as well as the supposed truth serum scopolamine. Former Guantanamo guard Joseph Hickman has documented the CIA’s torturing people, sometimes to death, and can find no explanation other than research:

“(Why) were men of little or no value kept under these conditions, and even repeatedly interrogated, months or years after they’d been taken into custody? Even if they’d had any intelligence when they came in, what relevance would it have years later? . . . One answer seemed to lie in the description that Major Generals (Michael) Dunlavey and (Geoffrey) Miller both applied to Gitmo. They called it ‘America’s battle lab.'”

Non-consensual experimentation on institutionalized children and adults was common in the United States before, during, and even more so after the U.S. and its allies prosecuted Nazis for the practice in 1947, sentencing many to prison and seven to be hanged. The tribunal created the Nuremberg Code, standards for medical practice that were immediately ignored back home. Some American doctors considered it “a good code for barbarians.”

The code begins: “Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity.” A similar requirement is included in the CIA’s rules, but has not been followed, even as doctors have assisted with such torture techniques as waterboarding.

Thus far, the United States has never really accepted the Nuremberg Code. While the code was being created, the U.S. was giving people syphilis in Guatemala. It did the same at Tuskegee. Also during the Nuremberg trial, children at the Pennhurst school in southeastern Pennsylvania were given hepatitis-laced feces to eat.

Other sites of experimentation scandals have included the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, and Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. And, of course, the CIA’s Project MKUltra (1953-1973) was a smorgasbord of human experimentation. Forced sterilizations of women in California prisons have not ended. Torture by Chicago police has for the first time just resulted in compensation for victims.

SNIP...

Myth number two is also wrong. Torture has not ended and won’t as long as it’s not punished.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/16/human-experimentation-a-cia-habit/

Those who torture are psychotic if not fascist. And those who defend torture are un-American.

Mnemosyne

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2. This needs spread far and wide. nt

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Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:12 PM

Jun 2015

Solly Mack

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3. K&R

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Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:13 PM

Jun 2015

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