WaPo: Truth or Torture- You don't see either argued by psychiatry

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Subject: WaPo: Truth or Torture- You don't see either argued by
psychiatry

Date: Apr 19, 2009 6:17 AM

(WaPo Article Below)

http://www.actionlyme.org

I will make a special page for these perverts:
(Even though I can only see out of one eyeball)
http://www.actionlyme.org/TRUTH_OR_TORTURE.htm

Now, Understand that this is a COMPLAINT to the
unbelievably stupid USDOJ who are copied in here.

And that complaint includes the criminal actions
of people at Yale, in addition to the liars,
Weintraub and Smith, because I would like them all
investigated to find out why they impede progress
towards prosecution of the Lyme cryme, which we know
for sure are crymes, since they were sued by AG
Blumenthal for Research Fraud and Racketeering:

http://www.actionlyme.org/TRUTH_OR_TORTURE.htm

The topic is OBSTRUCTIONISTS AND PERVERTS OF MEDICINE


What Satan most abhors and defames possesses an unimpeachable
guarantee of its truth.

And Robert C. Bransfield and Brian A. Fallon have some splainin to
do... And time is running out.


"Lyme Disease"- We don't need more grant money, we need Qui Tam or
False Claims (Act) and RICO recovery!! (The crooks will have to
repay Uncle Sam three times what they cost us.)

▲The Sisters of Perpetual Obstruction - Weintraub and Smith - are
starting to piss me off.

▲The Obstructionist Queens are at it again. The problems they are
causing are due to neither Pam Weintraub or Pat Smith being the
whistleblower. Neither of them can deal with not being the famous
solver of the Lyme crymes. And that's pretty true because Weintraub's
new book is called Cure Unknown but already is obsolete because now we
know, the Cause is Known. But Weiner is not a scientist and Weiner
didn't call any aspect of this crime. She is instead an intellectual
property thief. Weiner was hired by Smith to re-write my data and
present it as her own. It's pretty sick on top of sick on top of
sick, but that's what Lyme sufferers have to deal with. And all such
merciless people - goats/liars - are going to hell, and we know hell
is real because of all the "Ghost Hunter" shows (the ghosts are
actually all demons), Interviews with Satan during Exorcisms, the
Discovery Channel's "A Haunting," and according to former Freemason
Roger Morneau, whose picture is captured below on this homepage from
"The Arrivals" YouTube series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2UDOMXjCtM&feature=related

Those two better back off, quick, and try to start helping Lyme
victims for a change. [The ActionItem between now April 24, 2009, is
for everyone to send to IDSA (and the USDOJ if you are up to it) all
the data IDSA refused to turn over to AG Richard Blumenthal for a year
and a half; see the white box, below and here:
IDSA Lyme Disease Review Panel Extends Public Input Period and Sets
the Public Hearing Date ]

And the same with the perverts and thieves who run ILADS.org. You
will notice that the only time ILADS ever tried to prove FRAUD, was
when I wrote - and substantiated with the references - the essence of
their Klempner rebuttal in June 2001, and you will notice that the
rebuttal claims Klempner was "scientifically invalid," and that is the
only time ILADS makes such a claim:
http://www.ilads.org/about_ILADS/position_papers2.html

"As it stands now, the small group of Lyme specialists who treat
chronic Lyme are getting rich from patients who pay out-of-pocket,
said Karen Vanderhoof, chairwoman of the Lyme Disease Foundation. 'But
if the IDSA guidelines provided some flexibility then patients could
go to any doctor. Now there's no competition for the chronic patient.
IDSA throws them out of the office.'"
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHAL_FORSCHNER.htm
From Connecticut's attorney general probes whether the professional
society's Lyme disease guidelines violate antitrust laws

As long as ILADS does not renounce psychiatry - and that includes
Brian Fallon, too - they will never be able to end the Lyme crimes,
because they will have to take the SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY stand to its
natural end. As you can see, there is financial interest in
perpetuating the crime, because these ILADS specialists charge usually
somewhere in the range of $1000 to $2000 to just even walk through
their doors as a new patient. Only wealthy people can be seen by an
ILADS Lyme specialist.

Psychiatry is the devil's work, according to Satan, himself, so Robert
C. Bransfield has a big decision to make soon...

Bush Torture Policy would be demonstrated to have come from the
Israelis, who happen to already do "Palestinian Hanging," since that's
where the term comes from. See the graphics HERE. The purpose of it
was to terrorize Arabs, just as is currently done in the Middle East
(Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran). Psychologists/psychiatrists
approve of and perform emotional torture routinely; it has nothing to
do with war. It has to do with their interest in manipulating/abusing
people, which is why they go into that business in the first place.
They EXIST for the purpose of corruption in one manner or another.
Either to blame the victim (sow discord) or convince people there is
no God (or evil or the devil). Satan even says psychiatrists work for
him by "putting people into the box," or corrupting them through
sexual indulgence and perversion. See more about that below in the
YouTube graphics of the interview with Roger Morneau regarding
Freemasonry (otherwise known as covens). Oh, no. We don't want an
investigation into who came up with Bush era torture. That would lead
right to the 911 stunt and the CIA's and CDC's relationship with the
Mossad. We might end up talking about Mind Control experiments which
are actually, again, Freemasonic, Zionist, Kabbalist, Psychiatric
Demon-worship & summoning. That all hits too close to home. We can't
look into it. We can't look into the Rockefellers and Henry
Kissinger... See cuz, there's little difference between the
Rockefellers and the Israelis. They're all cowards, but one set is
louder than the other.


Whoever mistakes kindness for stupidity is in for a big surprise.
Many people in Corrupticut and who work for either the State or Yale
can tell you that. Many, many reputations here have been ruined, and
they resent it enormously, but psychiatry doesn't teach morality, it
teaches the opposite. And morality, anyway, is something we all know
in our hearts, and that fact was proven scientifically:

"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it's apparently not quite as basic
as the human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in your
heart you know you're wrong." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html


A lot people people HATE MY GUTS, because everything I say is TRUE,
and this is especially true for my own debased-Rockefeller mother, who
wanted to "slit" my "throat" and told everyone that, recently. That's
pretty big, because I also had my First Amendment Rights removed for
two years by a Corrupticourt order after my false arrest for exposing
the crimes of duh DCF to the USDOJ... and now we see Weiner and Smith
continue to obstruct all the ActionItems, still and continually, for
nearly 10 years...

What Satan most abhors and defames possesses an unimpeachable
guarantee of its truth.


Kathleen M. Dickson
I want this to be OVER SOON; 10 years of doing the
same thing ever day - demanding that the USDOJ do their
jobs, is long enough:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Actionlyme_History.htm
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Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations
Extent of Health Professionals' Role at CIA Prisons Draws Fresh
Outrage From Ethicists

By Joby Warrick and Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 18, 2009

When the CIA began what it called an "increased pressure phase" with
captured terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida in the summer of 2002, its
first step was to limit the detainee's human contact to just two
people. One was the CIA interrogator, the other a psychologist.

During the extraordinary weeks that followed, it was the psychologist
who apparently played the more critical role. According to newly
released Justice Department documents, the psychologist provided
ideas, practical advice and even legal justification for interrogation
methods that would break Abu Zubaida, physically and mentally. Extreme
sleep deprivation, waterboarding, the use of insects to provoke fear
-- all were deemed acceptable, in part because the psychologist said
so.

"No severe mental pain or suffering would have been inflicted," a
Justice Department lawyer said in a 2002 memo explaining why
waterboarding, or simulated drowning, should not be considered
torture.

The role of health professionals as described in the documents has
prompted a renewed outcry from ethicists who say the conduct of
psychologists and supervising physicians violated basic standards of
their professions.

Their names are among the few details censored in the long-concealed
Bush administration memos released Thursday, but the documents show a
steady stream of psychologists, physicians and other health officials
who both kept detainees alive and actively participated in designing
the interrogation program and monitoring its implementation. Their
presence also enabled the government to argue that the interrogations
did not include torture.

Most of the psychologists were contract employees of the CIA,
according to intelligence officials familiar with the program.

"The health professionals involved in the CIA program broke the law
and shame the bedrock ethical traditions of medicine and psychology,"
said Frank Donaghue, chief executive of Physicians for Human Rights,
an international advocacy group made up of physicians opposed to
torture. "All psychologists and physicians found to be involved in the
torture of detainees must lose their license and never be allowed to
practice again."

The CIA declined to comment yesterday on the role played by health
professionals in the agency's self-described "enhanced interrogation
program," which operated from 2002 to 2006 in various secret prisons
overseas.

"The fact remains that CIA's detention and interrogation effort was
authorized and approved by our government," CIA Director Leon Panetta
said Thursday in a statement to employees. The Obama administration
and its top intelligence leaders have banned harsh interrogations
while also strongly opposing investigations or penalties for employees
who were following their government's orders.

The CIA dispatched personnel from its office of medical services to
each secret prison and evaluated medical professionals involved in
interrogations "to make sure they could stand up, psychologically
handle it," according to a former CIA official.

The alleged actions of medical professionals in the secret prisons are
viewed as particularly troubling by an array of groups, including the
American Medical Association and the International Committee of the
Red Cross.

AMA policies state that physicians "must not be present when torture
is used or threatened." The guidelines allow doctors to treat
detainees only "if doing so is in their [detainees'] best interest"
and not merely to monitor their health "so that torture can begin or
continue."

The American Psychological Association has condemned any participation
by its members in interrogations involving torture, but critics of the
organization faulted it for failing to censure members involved in
harsh interrogations.

The ICRC, which conducted the first independent interviews of CIA
detainees in 2006, said the prisoners were told they would not be
killed during interrogations, though one was warned that he would be
brought to "the verge of death and back again," according to a
confidential ICRC report leaked to the New York Review of Books last
month.

"The interrogation process is contrary to international law and the
participation of health personnel in such a process is contrary to
international standards of medical ethics," the ICRC report concluded.

The newly released Justice Department memos place medical officials at
the scene of the earliest CIA interrogations. At least one
psychologist was present -- and others were frequently consulted --
during the interrogation of Abu Zubaida, the nom de guerre of Zayn al-
Abidin Muhammed Hussein, a Palestinian who was captured by CIA and
Pakistani intelligence officers in March 2002, the Justice documents
state.

An Aug. 1, 2002, memo said the CIA relied on its "on-site
psychologists" for help in designing an interrogation program for Abu
Zubaida and ultimately came up with a list of 10 methods drawn from a
U.S. military training program known as Survival, Evasion, Resistance
and Escape, or SERE. That program, used to help prepare pilots to
endure torture in the event they are captured, is loosely based on
techniques that were used by the Communist Chinese to torture American
prisoners of war.

The role played by psychologists in adapting SERE methods for
interrogation has been described in books and news articles, including
some in The Washington Post. Author Jane Mayer and journalist
Katherine Eban separately identified as key figures James Mitchell and
Bruce Jessen, two psychologists in Washington state who worked as CIA
contractors after 2001 and had extensive experience in SERE training.
Mitchell, reached by telephone, declined to comment, and Jessen could
not be reached yesterday.

The CIA psychologists had personal experience with SERE and helped
convince CIA officials that harsh tactics would coerce confessions
from Abu Zubaida without inflicting permanent harm. Waterboarding was
touted as particularly useful because it was "reported to be almost
100 percent effective in producing cooperation," the memo said.

The agency then used a psychological assessment of Abu Zubaida to find
his vulnerable points. One of them, it turns out, was a severe
aversion to bugs.

"He appears to have a fear of insects," states the memo, which
describes a plan to place a caterpillar or similar creature inside a
tiny wooden crate in which Abu Zubaida was confined. CIA officials say
the plan was never carried out.

Former intelligence officials contend that Abu Zubaida was found to
have played a less important role in al-Qaeda than initially believed
and that under harsh interrogation he provided little useful
information about the organization's plans.

The memos acknowledge that the presence of medical professionals posed
an ethical dilemma. But they contend that the CIA's use of doctors in
interrogations was morally distinct from the practices of other
countries that the United States has accused of committing torture.
One memo notes that doctors who observed interrogations were empowered
to stop them "if in their professional judgment the detainee may
suffer severe physical or mental pain or suffering." In one instance,
the CIA chose not to subject a detainee to waterboarding due to a
"medical contraindication," according to a May 10, 2005, memo.

Yet some doctors and ethicists insist that any participation by
physicians was tantamount to complicity in torture.

"I don't think we had any idea doctors were involved to this extent,
and it will shock most physicians," said George Annas, a professor of
health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University.

Annas said the use of doctors to monitor prisoners subjected to
torture is "totally unethical" and has been condemned by the American
and World Medical Associations, among other professional bodies.

"In terms of ethics, it's not even a close call," he said.

Steven H. Miles, a professor of medicine at the University of
Minnesota and author of "Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors,"
said the actions described in the memos were the "kind of stuff that
doctors have been tried, convicted and imprisoned for in other
countries -- and that's what should happen here."

But Michael Gross, a professor at the University of Haifa in Israel
and the author of "Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of
Medicine and Warfare," said that if physicians think particular harsh
interrogation techniques do not constitute torture, there is no reason
they should not participate.

"Physicians are faced with a hard dilemma," he said. "They have
professional obligations to do no harm, but they also have a duty as a
citizen to provide expertise to their government when the national
security is at stake. In a national security crisis, I believe our
duties as citizens take precedence."

Staff writers R. Jeffrey Smith and Dana Priest and staff researcher
Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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