Doctors, psychologists and other medical professionals who monitored the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques were engaging in forms of human research and experimentation in violation of medical ethics and domestic and international law,
according to a report being published by Physicians for Human Rights.
"The CIA appears to have broken all accepted legal and ethical standards put in place since the Second World War to protect prisoners from being the subjects of experimentation,"
says Frank Donaghue, PHR's chief executive officer. "Not only are these alleged acts gross violations of human rights law, they are a grave affront to America's core values."
“The report is just wrong,” says Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman. “The CIA did not, as part of its past detention program, conduct human subject research on any detainee or group of detainees. The entire detention effort has been the subject of multiple, comprehensive reviews within our government, including by the Department of Justice.”