Name: Anonymous 2006-10-14 5:36
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001801.php
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/doj/bybee80102mem.pdf
LSD Mystery: In 2002, Justice Dept. OK'd Dosing Detainees
Giving detainees drugs like LSD and PCP seems stupid to the point of absurdity.
So I was surprised to discover that in 2002, Justice Department lawyers carefully considered the issue and advised the White House that it was okay. In their view, it was acceptable to force detainees to ingest "mind-altering substances," as long as it was not intended to cause months-long bouts of serious mental illness.
How do we know that? Because in August 2002, the Justice Department gave then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales a 50-page document saying so. And a follow-up document in 2004 reaffirmed it.
The now-infamous 2002 "Bybee Memo" was leaked to the press in 2004, at which time the administration quickly disavowed it. (In December 2004, Justice released a new version of guidance for detainee treatment.)
For nearly two years, the Bybee Memo was the administration's guiding document for how detainees were to be treated. The document which replaced it does not appear to substantively alter its conclusions on forced drug use by detainees.
In the 2002 Bybee Memo, then-Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee (now a federal appellate judge) concluded that giving detainees "mind altering substances" (that's "a commonly used synonym for drugs," he noted for the squares in the White House) was legal, as long as doing so did not cause "prolonged mental harm" by "disrupt[ing] profoundly the senses or personality," and was not i intended to do so.
http://www.drugfreeatlast.com/lsd.html
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/doj/bybee80102mem.pdf
LSD Mystery: In 2002, Justice Dept. OK'd Dosing Detainees
Giving detainees drugs like LSD and PCP seems stupid to the point of absurdity.
So I was surprised to discover that in 2002, Justice Department lawyers carefully considered the issue and advised the White House that it was okay. In their view, it was acceptable to force detainees to ingest "mind-altering substances," as long as it was not intended to cause months-long bouts of serious mental illness.
How do we know that? Because in August 2002, the Justice Department gave then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales a 50-page document saying so. And a follow-up document in 2004 reaffirmed it.
The now-infamous 2002 "Bybee Memo" was leaked to the press in 2004, at which time the administration quickly disavowed it. (In December 2004, Justice released a new version of guidance for detainee treatment.)
For nearly two years, the Bybee Memo was the administration's guiding document for how detainees were to be treated. The document which replaced it does not appear to substantively alter its conclusions on forced drug use by detainees.
In the 2002 Bybee Memo, then-Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee (now a federal appellate judge) concluded that giving detainees "mind altering substances" (that's "a commonly used synonym for drugs," he noted for the squares in the White House) was legal, as long as doing so did not cause "prolonged mental harm" by "disrupt[ing] profoundly the senses or personality," and was not i intended to do so.
http://www.drugfreeatlast.com/lsd.html