Detainees' Medical Files Shared

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[cohokie]

Detainees' Medical Files Shared Guantanamo Interrogators' Access Criticized By Peter Slevin and Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page A01

Military interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been given access to the medical records of individual prisoners, a breach of patient confidentiality that ethicists describe as a violation of international medical standards designed to protect captives from inhumane treatment.

[cohokie]

You must be kidding me ... better respect Khalid Sheikh Mohhamad (sp) medical privacy

[samtheman]

I'm really getting sick of the left.

[blastdad51]

Those clowns have gone stark raving mad!!!!!

They are more concerned about the privacy of the terrorist medical records than their own safety. God help us!!! excuse me.. God help them.

[NonValueAdded]

Where do they think they are, Palm Beach County? _</sarcasm>

[dasboot]

Dasboot's wife's astute observation:

If they didn't request or subpoena the medical records, the lefties would be accusing the FedGuv of neglecting the detainees medical needs...in violation of this or that international standard.

[demlosers]

Oh please... these bozos in the press don't have a story here.

[MamaLucci]

Oh, the horror!.......undies on the head, and now THIS!
And all those poor little detainees want to do is
annihilate every american man, woman and child.....

[Polybius]

Under the Geneva Convention, a illegal combatant is specifically designated as an individual that is not entitled to POW rights and is also defined as an individual that can be executed simply for being an illegal combatant.

Where is the Geneva Convention clause that says anything about an illegal combatant's "medical privacy"?

[LifeTrek]

Another attempt to create a scandal - they wait till the 3rd paragraph to say:

"There is no universally established international law governing medical confidentiality. But ethics experts said international medical standards bar sharing such information with interrogators to ensure it is not used to pressure prisoners to talk by withholding medicine or by using personal information to torment a detainee. "

In other words - no harm no foul, but it just bothers us enough to try to milk another week out of the prison scandal.

It just bothers them that we have anyone in custody at all. If Osama were in custody they would want him let out.
DKK

[sweneop]

its medical standards, not the geneva convention.

[AHerald]

Where do they think they are, Palm Beach County?

Applause, applause. Funny stuff. Love it.

[TeleStraightShooter]

There is no universally established international law governing medical confidentiality. But ethics experts said international medical standards bar sharing such information with interrogators

<clearing throat>
This is war, Queens-bury rules do not apply

Methinks the writer need to be re-assigned to the tea & crumpets beat!

[Polybius]

....its medical standards, not the geneva convention.

"Medical standards", hell.

As members of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, we were always reminded that we were "U.S. Naval officers first and doctors second."

Military medicine is a different world. In military medicine, you patch up a young kid as soon as possible so that he can go out and risk his life again so that the mission can be successful. In other words, your duty is not necessarily to ensure that your patient is alive a year from now but to ensure that the war will be won.

As the article points out, "There is no universally established international law governing medical confidentiality."

If an interrogator can use an illegal combatant's medical information to get intelligence out of that illegal combatant, then that interrogator has a "need to know" in regards to that information.

Illegal combatants are specifically denied belligerent rights. Not qualifying for belligerent rights means just that.

You have no rights.

You have no right to privacy. You don't even have a right to stay alive.

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REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND
SECTION I
ON BELLIGERENTS
CHAPTER I
The Qualifications of Belligerents

Article 1.
The laws, rights, and duties of war apply not only to armies, but also to militia and volunteer corps fulfilling the following conditions:

To be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;

To have a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance;

To carry arms openly; and

To conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

In countries where militia or volunteer corps constitute the army, or form part of it, they are included under the denomination "army."

[John Valentine]

I couldn't continue reading the article.

I had to go look for something to sponge off the crocodile tears pouring down my cheeks.

Boo Hoo Hooo.....