Interrogators subjected Gitmo detainees to dangerous psychoactive drug: report

[IDemo]

Source: rawstory.com

By Eric W. Dolan
Friday, December 3rd, 2010 -- 11:12 am

The US military's routine administration of high doses of a malaria drug, posing severe psychological side effects for Guantanamo Bay detainees, may have been the "psychological equivalent of waterboarding," according to a published report.

An investigation by the Seton Hall University School of Law, a leading law school in the New York metropolitan area, found that administering 1250mg of the malaria drug mefloquine to Guantanamo Bay detainees was a standard operating procedure, "whether or not any use of the drug was medically appropriate."

The findings were also carried in a Truthout investigative report by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye.

"Mefloquine was administered to detainees contrary to medical protocol or purpose," Professor Mark P. Denbeaux, Director of the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, said. "The record reveals no medical justification for mefloquine in this manner or at these doses. On this record there appears to be only three possible reasons for drugging these men: gross malpractice, human experimentation or 'enhanced interrogation.'"

"At best it represents monumental incompetence," he added. "At worst, it's torture."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/gitmo-detainees-administered-dangerous-drug/

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The whole thing seems scary

how much do these people know?

[mike_c]

2. mind rape....

Fucking pigs. :grr:

[soryang]

3. Let's put the torturers and murderers behind us...

...in prison.

[midnight]

4. Good lord, but these folks are in need of some relief from working

in the public/private-EVER.

[asdjrocky]

5. No one here is really suprised by this, are we?

This is who we are, this is what we do.

[LiberalFighter]

6. All of those connected need to be in prison.

Any medical personnel involved need to lose their medical license.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, if they didn't want to be tortured, why'd they go to Gitmo?

Thank goodness we're lookin' forward to the future instead of backwards to the past. Now, let's get cracking on reducing social security benefits and raising the retirement age, all in the name of deficit reduction!

See? You're not thinking about the past anymore, are you?

[Odin2005]

8. Truth Serum?