Doctors and Detainees - Trailer

From Nurse.com:
"When suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah was repeatedly waterboarded, physicians and psychologists were there. When the CIA considered using his fear of insects to make him reveal possible future terrorist attacks, psychologists were there. And when other detainees were shackled by their hands and feet so they could not fall asleep, medical personnel were there."

Doctors have contributed to the torture and abuse of detainees through their collaboration with interrogators at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA black sites. Are interrogation doctors at the forefront of disturbing new roles for psychologists, psychiatrists and physicians in national security intelligence?

Until 2002, doctors assisting interrogations were associated with totalitarian regimes, not military prisons controlled by the United States, but interrogation doctors are still being used by the C.I.A. and U.S. Army and the Army Surgeon General has refused to withdraw them. Efforts to ban this practice will require greater public awareness of the corruption that spawned the policy, the damage it does to health care of detainees and soldiers, and how it may spread to domestic law enforcement. This is not a minor initiative of the C.I.A. and Department of Defense, and it will not be resolved by closing Guantanamo. There are still hundreds of detainees in Iraq and Afghan prisons, and recent additions to the Army Field Manual allow certain enhanced interrogation methods.

Today, assisting interrogations of detainees is only one of the ways that doctors are involved in U.S. intelligence gathering. Psychologists and physicians are developing new ways to question persons of interest. They are adapting brain scan technology to detect deception and noninvasive brain stimulation to render a subject amenable to questioning. The documentary will follow the money and show how interrogation doctors are only one group within the growing number of national security medical professionals

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• torture
• APA
• doctors
• detainees
• abu ghraib
• CIA black sites
• Guantanamo
• PHR
• interrogation
• waterboarding
• physicians
• phychologists
• psychiatrists

[DoctorsAndDetainees]

Screening Liberally has invited us to discuss our documentary, Doctors and Detainees, at Netroots Nation! Aug.14 9AM.

We'll show a clip of our work-in-progress and get feedback from the audience.