U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says

By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating in the abuse of prisoners during interrogations after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, an independent study concluded on Monday. "These practices included designing, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of detainees," concluded the study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers. The panel is made up of 19 military, health, legal and human rights experts who studied public records concerning the role of health professionals in detainee operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, at secret CIA prisons and at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba during the last dozen years. They said that in the rush to obtain information that could prevent future attacks, the Defense Department and the CIA improperly demanded that medical personnel violate their ethical obligation to "do no harm." A Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale, said detainees receive humane medical care and that the allegations in the report were not new.



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