We were told about doctors and torture in Iraq back in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009. Not new.

[Uncle Joe]

19. NBC is promoting the old news to protect the DOD and CIA while putting the blame more on the doctors

This is the heading from the NBC Report on your link.

'Big, striking horror:' US military doctors allowed torture of detainees, new study claims

The thrust of the two year study which just ended has the medical profession blaming the DOD and CIA for coercing those doctors and psychologists in to betraying their code of ethics and doing it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/cia-doctors-torture-suspected-terrorists-9-11

CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

The two-year review by the 19-member taskforce, Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror, supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations, says that the DoD termed those involved in interrogation "safety officers" rather than doctors. Doctors and nurses were required to participate in the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike, against the rules of the World Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Doctors and psychologists working for the DoD were required to breach patient confidentiality and share what they knew of the prisoner's physical and psychological condition with interrogators and were used as interrogators themselves. They also failed to comply with recommendations from the army surgeon general on reporting abuse of detainees.

The CIA's office of medical services played a critical role in advising the justice department that "enhanced interrogation" methods, such as extended sleep deprivation and waterboarding, which are recognised as forms of torture, were medically acceptable. CIA medical personnel were present when waterboarding was taking place, the taskforce says.

(snip)

He added: "It's clear that in the name of national security the military trumped that covenant, and physicians were transformed into agents of the military and performed acts that were contrary to medical ethics and practice. We have a responsibility to make sure this never happens again."The taskforce says that unethical practices by medical personnel, required by the military, continue today. The DoD "continues to follow policies that undermine standards of professional conduct" for interrogation, hunger strikes, and reporting abuse. Protocols have been issued requiring doctors and nurses to participate in the force-feeding of detainees, including forced extensive bodily restraints for up to two hours twice a day.

"Putting on a uniform does not and should not abrogate the fundamental principles of medical professionalism," said IMAP president David Rothman. "'Do no harm' and 'put patient interest first' must apply to all physicians regardless of where they practise."The taskforce wants a full investigation into the involvement of the medical profession in detention centres. It is also calling for publication of the Senate intelligence committee's inquiry into CIA practices and wants rules to ensure doctors and psychiatrists working for the military are allowed to abide by the ethical obligations of their profession; they should be prohibited from taking part in interrogation, sharing information from detainees' medical records with interrogators, or participating in force-feeding, and they should be required to report abuse of detainees.

This isn't to take blame away from the doctors and psychologists participating in these atrocities but to explain NBC's reasoning for their "old news report."

GE owns NBC

On a thread by Fantastic Anarchist, more on the link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023976131

10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy, 6 Media Corporations Control Nearly Everything...
... you watch.

Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.