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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-05-08 10:04 AM
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Evidence Grows of Drug Use on 'Terrorist' Detainees To Weaken Resistance
Evidence Grows of Drug Use on Detainees
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor


There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation. All that’s missing is the syringes and videotapes.

Another window opened on the practice last week with the declassification of John Woo’s instantly infamous 2003 memo approving harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects.

Woo advised top Bush administration officials that interrogators could employ mind-altering drugs if they did not produce “an extreme effect” calculated to “cause a profound disruption of the senses or personality.”

Woo had first rationalized the use of drugs in a 2002 memo for top Bush administration officials.

But this latest revelation shows Woo reiterating conditions on the use of drugs a year later, despite the rising resistance to harsh interrogation techniques by military lawyers and the FBI.

“The new Yoo memo, along with other White House legal memoranda, shows clearly that the policy foundation for the use of interrogational drugs was being laid,” says Stephen Miles, a University of Minnesota bioethicist and author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror.” “The recent memo on mood-altering drugs does not extend previous work on this area,” he said. “The use of these drugs was anticipated and discussed in the memos of January and February 2002 by DoD, DoJ, and White House counsel using the same language and rationale. The executive branch memos laid a comprehensive and reiterated policy foundation for the use of interrogational drugs.”

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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-05-08 10:08 AM
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1. Medical Complicity along with legal complicity-was anyone
upholding their oaths?
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