11/30/2004

If only there were some way to see this coming:
The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The finding that the handling of prisoners detained and interrogated at Guantánamo amounted to torture came after a visit by a Red Cross inspection team that spent most of last June in Guantánamo. The team of humanitarian workers, which included experienced medical personnel, also asserted that some doctors and other medical workers at Guantánamo were participating in planning for interrogations, in what the report called "a flagrant violation of medical ethics." Doctors and medical personnel conveyed information about prisoners' mental health and vulnerabilities to interrogators, the report said, sometimes directly, but usually through a group called the Behavioral Science Consultation Team, or B.S.C.T. The team, known informally as Biscuit, is composed of psychologists and psychological workers who advise the interrogators, the report said. The United States government, which received the report in July, sharply rejected its charges, administration and military officials said.

1 Comments:

Blogger Zach said...

Josh, I think this is the first time in the two-plus years that i have known you that i have seen you be this directly sarcastic. (Perhaps i am mistaken in placing various observations about the Office of New Haven and State Affairs, Joseph A. Zaccagnino, and Richard Levin, not to mention "Love Me, I'm a Yalie," in a separate gradient.)

11/30/2004 11:16:00 PM  

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