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Pentagon: 'Gitmo drugged prisoners for their sake…then interrogated'

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Pentagon: 'Gitmo drugged prisoners for their sake…then interrogated'



A recently-released Pentagon report admits to interrogating Guantanamo Bay prisoners after administering mind-altering treatments to them - often forcibly against their will - but stresses it was not done for the purposes of interrogation.

The report by the inspector general of the US Department of Defense obtained by truth-out.org  under the  Freedom of Information Act, found that some Gitmo inmates were questioned while receiving prescribed psychoactive treatments.

The Pentagon has tried to justify the facility staff’s actions, saying that “nowhere in the medical records did we find any evidence of mind-altering drugs being administered for the purpose of interrogation,” as the report states on page 13..... MORE

SourceRT.com

URL: http://www.rt.com/news/guantanamo-drugs-prisoners-interrogation-084/

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