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More for Torture Awareness Month: Just when the US’s “checkered” (read: conspicuous) history of using “coercive techniques” (read: torture) to protect national security in the wake of 9/11 had your constitutional spidey-senses collectively tingling, recently published evidence suggests that government agents went even further. Physicians for Human Rights are behind a mini-site called “The Torture Papers”, which claim that “CIA medical personnel allegedly engaged in the crime of illegal experimentation after 9/11, in addition to the previously disclosed crime of torture.” Their goal? To make the process as effective and invisible as possible. Apparently the scope they’d been afforded by the Torture Memos wasn’t broad enough. That is, that in order to constitute torture, the pain suffered must be:
“equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.”
Read the full memos for yourself below.
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