(Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)The Bush administration’s torture program went beyond “waterboarding” and sleep deprivation. The macabre reality is much more terrifying. Truthout has now documented an unprecedented human experimentation program which appears to have been officially sanctioned by top officials in the Bush Department of Defense.
Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program
Thursday 14 October 2010
by: Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report
In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to torture and other brutal techniques for interrogating "war on terror" detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners.
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