At Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and “undisclosed locations,” some U.S. military interrogators have used troubling methods to try to get their captives to talk. Many of their efforts have been widely reported; some may have risen to the level of torture under international law. What is less known, but equally disturbing, is that military doctors often become arbiters, even planners, of aggressive interrogation practice, including prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation and exposure to temperature extremes. The Brookings Institution will hold a briefing to examine whether the use of health professionals in devising aggressive interrogation strategies is unethical and/or contrary to international law.
The briefing will be moderated by Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow at Brookings, and will feature a dynamic group of panelists including: Alan A. Stone, M.D., Touroff-Glueck professor of law & psychiatry, Harvard Law School; Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D., adjunct professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania and consultant to the CIA & other intelligence agencies; David Irvine, retired Brigadier General, U.S. Army; Jonathan H. Marks, Greenwall fellow in Bioethics, Georgetown & Johns Hopkins Universities; and M. Gregg Bloche, visiting fellow at Brookings and professor of law at Georgetown University.
A question and answer session will follow remarks.
Agenda
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October 17
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Moderator
Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy @MichaelEOHanlon -
Panelists
Alan A. Stone, M.D. Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law & Psychiatry Harvard Law SchoolDavid Irvine Brigadier General, Retired U.S. ArmyM. Gregg Bloche, M.D. Visiting Fellow, the Brookings Institution; Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityMarc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Psychology University of Pennsylvania's Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
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