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Thanks to an 老澳门开奖结果 victory in federal court, we know much more about how CIA doctors violated the medical oath to 鈥渄o no harm.鈥�

One of the most important lessons of the CIA鈥檚 torture program is the way it corrupted virtually every individual and institution associated with it. Over the years, we have learned how lawyers twisted the law and psychologists betrayed their ethical obligations in order to enable the brutal and unlawful torture of prisoners.

Now we鈥檝e won the release of a 90-page account of the CIA鈥檚 Office of Medical Services role in the CIA torture program 鈥� a secret history written by the top CIA medical official, whose identity remains classified.

The history reveals that CIA doctors were hunting for a 鈥渢ruth serum鈥� to use on prisoners as part of a previously secret effort called Project Medication. The CIA studied records of old Soviet drug experiments as well as the CIA鈥檚 notorious and discredited program, which involved human experimentation with LSD and other drugs on unwitting subjects. The CIA doctors involved in Project Medication wanted to use Versed, a psychoactive drug similar to some of those used in MK-Ultra, on prisoners.

The CIA ignored lessons from its own history. After MK-Ultra was shut down, the CIA director in 1977, 鈥淚t is totally abhorrent to me to think of using humans as guinea pigs.鈥� But decades later, the agency decided to on humans again, testing pseudoscientific theories of 鈥�learned helplessness鈥� on its prisoners.

While Project Medication never got off the ground, CIA medical professionals remained critical participants in experimenting with torture. Just like the government lawyers who tried to give unlawful torture a veneer of legality, the secret history reveals that CIA doctors were 鈥渋ndispensable鈥� to the effort of 鈥渓egitimizing the program.鈥�

Perhaps the most striking element of the document is the CIA doctors鈥� willful blindness to the truth of what they were doing. CIA doctors decided that waterboarding actually 鈥減rovided periodic relief鈥� to a prisoner because it was a break from days of standing sleep deprivation. Similarly, CIA doctors decided that when a different prisoner was stuffed into a coffin-sized box, this provided a 鈥渞elatively benign sanctuary鈥� from other torture methods. CIA doctors described yet another prisoner 鈥� who cried, begged, pleaded, vomited, and required medical resuscitation after being waterboarded 鈥� as 鈥渁mazingly resistant to the waterboard.鈥� Incredibly, CIA doctors concluded that the torture program was 鈥渞eassuringly free of enduring physical or psychological effects.鈥�

The truth is that CIA torture left a of broken bodies and traumatized minds. Today, with a president who has vocally supported torture and a new CIA director who was deeply in torturing prisoners, it鈥檚 more important than ever to expose the crimes of the past. Recognizing the roles played by the lawyers, doctors, and psychologists who enabled torture is critical to making sure it never happens again.