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1950s: CIA retains consultant to help perfect interrogation

1950s: Dr. Henry K Beecher, chief anesthetist at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, an outspoken advocate of the Nuremberg Code; who authored a seminal article in the NEJM (1966), was a secret paid CIA consultant who participated in secret, CIA- and US Navy-sponsored experiments aimed at perfecting interrogation (i.e. torture) techniques…

May 2008: Judge Susan Crawford, Military “Convening Authority” for Guantanamo

Judge Susan Crawford, the Convening Authority for GTMO Military Commissions (Feb. 2007 – Jan. 2010), ordered the war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani dropped but did not state publicly that the harsh interrogations were the reason. In June 2005, Time magazine obtained 83 pages of Qahtani’s interrogation log and published excerpts…

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1932–1972: Tuskegee Syphilis experiment

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Psychologists involved in “Interrogation science” & “deception detection” thrive under Obama

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