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The Psychological and Physical Impact of CIA’s ‘Prolonged Diapering’

By | 08.25.09 | 9:24 pm

The CIA’s Office of Medical Services was very clear in its September 2003 guidelines about the objective of the “enhanced interrogation” techniques were. “In all instances,” reads the Sept. 4, 2003 memorandum, “the general goal of these techniques is a psychological impact, and not some physical effect, with a More…

Physicians for Human Rights Working on Torture Report Critique

By | 08.25.09 | 2:46 pm

One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture comes from the Office of Medical Services. On September 4, 2003, the office in the CIA responsible for “assessing and monitoring the health of all Agency detainees subject to ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques” issued its More…