In a new report that makes contextualizes the torturous force-feeding of Gitmo hunger strikers, it has been revealed that under CIA and DoD orders, doctors tortured terror suspects to gain intel after 9/11.

The Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers found that, following 9/11, medical professionals working with the military and intelligence services "designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees."

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The report, as the Guardian highlighted Monday, points the finger at the CIA and the Defense Department for requiring health professionals in their employ to oversea force-feedings, "enhanced interrogations" (read, always, as "torture"), and to forgo patient-doctor confidentiality. In every of these instances, international medical ethics codes were grossly abrogated. Via the Guardian: