{"id":67073,"date":"2018-11-14T01:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/14\/cia-doctors-considered-using-truth-serum-on-terror-suspects\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T01:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:37:04","slug":"cia-doctors-considered-using-truth-serum-on-terror-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=67073","title":{"rendered":"CIA doctors considered using &#039;truth serum&#039; on terror suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical staff was key to waterboarding and other interrogations following 9\/11 attacks, newly declassified documents showCIA doctors considered using a \u201ctruth serum\u201d on suspected terrorists in detention after waterboarding appeared to be ineffective and traumatic for US personnel who witnessed it, according to newly declassified documents.The proposal to use the drug in a programme codenamed \u201cProject Medication\u201d was revealed in a 90-page report by a senior CIA medical officer, which was released on a judge\u2019s order to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), after a prolonged legal battle. The ACLU published the report by the unnamed officer on Tuesday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/13\/cia-doctors-truth-serum-terror-suspects\" target=\"_blank\">CIA doctors considered using &#039;truth serum&#039; on terror suspects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical staff was key to waterboarding and other interrogations following 9\/11 attacks, newly declassified documents showCIA doctors considered using a \u201ctruth serum\u201d on suspected terrorists in detention after waterboarding appeared to be ineffective and traumatic for US personnel who witnessed it, according to newly declassified documents.The proposal to use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}