FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Doctors approving torture

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 6, 2010 4:00:50 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> 
> More of the truth comes out. Back in 2004, Steven Miles MD published in 
> Lancet a devastating revelation of the role of medical support for the Abu 
> Ghraib stories that had just broken.
> 
> Now there  are more stories. An AP story show how the CIA used Gitmo as a 
> temporary hiding place for its key detainees (and concealed those facts)
> 
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> http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0806/ap-exclusive-cia-whisked-detainees-gitmo/
> 
> And a new JAMA article tells more about ways that CIA doctors OK'd torture.
> 
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> http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0805/study-cia-doctors-gave-green-light-torture/
> 
> Conservatives may claim not to like <big government> but stories like this, 
> and the recent revelations about private-sector intelligence and security 
> subsidies, bring us closer to the continuing realities that neither party is 
> ready to modify.
> 
> Bob