From War on Terror to Banking, 16x20, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEPaul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary Bush Administration 2001–2005 Excerpted from Truthout:In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to the useof  EITs for interrogating detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners. Wolfowitz issued a little-known directive on March 25, 2002, about a month after President George W. Bush stripped the detainees of traditional prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions. Despite its title “Protection of Human Subjects and Adherence to Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported Research” the Wolfowitz directive weakened protections that had been in place for decades by limiting the safeguards to prisoners of war. The Wolfowitz directive provided legal cover for a top-secret Special Access Program at the Guantanamo Bay prison, which experimented on ways to glean information from unwilling subjects and to achieve “deception detection.” Read the full article here: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/257:wolfowitz-directive-gave-legal-cover-to-detainee-experimentation-program#

From War on Terror to Banking, 16x20, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary Bush Administration 2001–2005

Excerpted from Truthout:

In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to the useof  EITs for interrogating detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners. Wolfowitz issued a little-known directive on March 25, 2002, about a month after President George W. Bush stripped the detainees of traditional prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions. Despite its title “Protection of Human Subjects and Adherence to Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported Research” the Wolfowitz directive weakened protections that had been in place for decades by limiting the safeguards to prisoners of war. The Wolfowitz directive provided legal cover for a top-secret Special Access Program at the Guantanamo Bay prison, which experimented on ways to glean information from unwilling subjects and to achieve “deception detection.”

Read the full article here: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/257:wolfowitz-directive-gave-legal-cover-to-detainee-experimentation-program#