 An upcoming report claims the Pentagon violated medical ethics by using military doctors as part of the interrogation of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. | What, did they do medical experiments on the "suspects"? Paging Dr. Mengele! |
Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University, and Jonathan Marks, a bioethics fellow at Georgetown University Law Center used previously undisclosed military documents to show doctors and mental health professionals were integrated into the interrogation process. | Sounds horrible, what did they do? |
In their report, which will appear in the July 7 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, they also allege the healthcare providers were told detainees didn't enjoy medical confidentiality and to provide information on prisoners' physical or mental health to interrogators even if they weren't asked to do so. | Of course they don't have medical confidentiality, they're illegal combatants! They're lucky if they get a band-aid! |
However, Pentagon officials deny the claims, the Wall Street Journal said. "To date, no investigation has produced credible evidence of military physician participation in the inhumane treatment of detainees," a Pentagon spokeswoman said. | You might be asking, do these guys have a agenda? Here is what Google has to say: |
Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health. Dr. Bloche received his M.D. and J.D. from Yale University and his B.A. from Columbia University. Before joining Georgetown's faculty in 1989, he completed his residency in psychiatry at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He received several awards for research and scholarship as a resident physician and law student, and he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Between college and medical school, Dr. Bloche spent a year as a reporter for the Dallas Times Herald. More recently, he has contributed commentaries to the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, other newspapers, and National Public Radio's Morning Edition. | Combination Lawyer/Doctor/Journalist |
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan's practice encompasses international law, EU law, environmental law, human rights law (particularly privacy and data protection), healthcare and commercial law (including both financial services and pharmaceutical regulation). Over the last decade, his practice has involved commercial litigation (at both trial and appellate levels), judicial review and hearings before both the ECJ and CFI. Jonathan is also a CEDR-accredited Mediator and has experience of mediation in both the UK and the US. Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan taught at Worcester College, Oxford, King's College, London and in Australia. After 11 September 2001, he developed a course on terrorism and the law, which he has taught in Europe and the USA (including the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and UNC Chapel Hill Law School). In addition, Jonathan has participated in conference panels in the USA on international law and has lectured on topics including the Pinochet case, universal jurisdiction and the lawfulness of counter-terrorism measures after September 11. He has also been retained as an international law expert on the legality of the war in Iraq in criminal proceedings in the USA.
| International law expert, nope, no agenda there. |
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