RT @phrTweets: More on the #CIA’s #Torture #Doctors /by Scott Horton

RT @phrTweets: When #research is #torture /by @Curiousreader, chief editor of @PLoSMedicine #junkscience #cia #eit

RT @phrTweets: MedCitizen: #Doctors’ roles in #torture at Guantanamo /by Jeffrey Parks, MD #junkscience #cia #eit

RT @phrTweets: Op-Ed: Say ‘Never again’ to #torture /by Rabbi David Saperstein #junkscience #experimentation #eit #cia

RT @phrTweets: JTA: #Jewish groups join call for #torture probe #cia #experimentation #eit #fb

RT @phrTweets: Podcast: Press Conference on Joint Complaint to Office of Human #Research Protections #eit #cia #ohrp

RT @phrTweets: Scott Horton: Bush-era #CIA Human #Experimentation Program Revealed #torture #eit

RT @phrTweets: NY Times Editorial: #Doctors Who Aid #Torture #experimentation #eit #fb

RT @phrTweets: Tapped: Report: US #Experimented on Terror #Detainees /by @AdamSerwer #cia #torture #eit

RT @phrTweets: Shakesville: You Can't Use People As Laboratories /by Maud #torture #experimentation #cia #eit

RT @phrTweets: Hullabaloo: First Do No Harm #torture #experimentation /by @digby56 #cia #eit

RT @phrTweets: MoJo:Did the Bush Administration #Experiment on #Detainees? /by @NickBaumann #torture #cia #eit

RT @phrTweets: Nature: Medics performed '#interrogation research' #CIA #torture #ethics #law

RT @jonhutson: Secret order gives #military too much leeway in covert ops: Boston Globe #security #CIA @CentComNews

RT @phrTweets: NYT: #CIA Document Details Destruction of Tapes #torture

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration put relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

In the wake of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) report on detainee abuse, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is calling for the psychologists who justified, designed, and implemented torture for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Defense (DoD), to lose their professional licenses and to face criminal prosecution.

President Obama has thrown a kind of protective, legal “invisibility cloak” over C.I.A. officers who may have participated in torture or other war crimes, but whose actions were authorized by lawyers in the Bush Administration. The reasoning goes that, if they were acting in good faith on the orders of superiors, it’s unfair to hold them to a different standard. But the unredacted report (pdf) from the Senate Armed Services Committee, released tonight by Chairman Carl Levin, raises questions about whether the C.I.A. was always operating with legal authorization.

Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden was fond of saying that when it came to handling high value terror suspects, he would play in fair territory, but with "chalk dust on my cleats." Four legal memos released last week by the Obama Administration make it clear that the referee role in CIA interrogations was played by its medical and psychological personnel.