CIA torture report reveals role of doctors, psychologists in harsh interrogations

The CIA torture report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released this week has revealed that medical doctors as well as psychologists were intimately involved in almost every interrogation session to a greater extent than was previously known.

Staff physicians from the CIA's Office of Medical Services served as observers and hardly intervened to stop the method of interrogation used by the officers, said the report.

According to the Washington Post, in most of the instances, medical personnel appear to be enablers.

Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston University George J. Annas said that the medical community cannot do much except saying that "it is a bad thing to do" because nobody knows the people who have been detained.

The CIA's Office of Medical Services has traditionally offered employee-related health care and referrals.