The International Committee for the Red Cross (the organization empowered by international law to investigate claims of prisoner abuse) released the second part of its report on the treatment of detainees by the United States.

As before, the results are damning, and this time directly implicate medical officers who participated in the torture:

Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in some cases essentially participated in torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a confidential report that labeled the CIA program “inhuman.” Health personnel offered supervision and even assistance as suspected al-Qaeda operatives were beaten, deprived of food, exposed to temperature extremes and subjected to waterboarding, the relief agency said in the 2007 report, a copy of which was posted on a magazine Web site yesterday. The report quoted one medical official as telling a detainee: “I look after your body only because we need you for information.”

Read the WaPo article on the report or view the whole report here (note: it’s a PDF).