From ABC News via truthout.org:
"Disposable Heroes": Suicide-Linked Drugs Tested on Veterans
http://www.truthout.org/article/disposable-heroes-veterans-used-test-suicide-linked-drugs
Brian Ross and Vic Walter, ABC News, say that "Mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side effects, an investigation by ABC News and The Washington Times has found."
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Re. Veterans as drug test subjects:
RIGHTS DENIED CONTINUED?
In 2008 still ignored is the U.S. Senate's, "The Feres Doctrine should not be applied for military personnel who are harmed by inappropriate human experimentation when informed consent has not been given."[9] These experiments are on THE U.S. SENATE'S ONGOING "HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS" OF DOD "GUINEA PIGS".[9] They are now, and have been, carried out under the diverting cover of our nation wars.
Despite the efforts of a few in Congress [9] it is now sixty four (64) years of failed U.S. Congressional oversight and accountability! Since 1953 the U.S. Senate’s proven from 1944 "designed to harm" [9] lessons learned have been in direct disobedience of the Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary's TOP SECRET order [3]. For our loved ones, to-date ignored is the evidence underlying the U.S. Senate’s 1994 noted "servicemember's knowledge" and "consent" .[9] This was required but disobeyed forty one (41) years earlier. [3] Then 1953 known by the Secretary's of all Services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and their Research and Development (R&D) Board. The DOD Secretary's 1953 order was "UNCLASSIFIED" twenty two (22) years later in 1975. Coincidently this followed the 1974 U.S. Congress Privacy Act that is a year after the 1973 National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fire that destroyed many "to harm" files. By the Privacy Act removed are all witnesses names from the surviving and from the then to-date new NPRC, DOD records. The experimentation causes and effects are not in the human "guinea pigs" [9] Medical Histories. This needed for treatment evidence would also identify the experiments themselves!
Three (3) years before the 1953 order was the U.S. Supreme Court FERES the DOD "incident to service" DOCTRINE. [1] In 2008 Congress still ignored is the U.S. Senate’s 1994 correcting, "The Feres Doctrine should not be applied..." [9] Still not given back are those rights that convicted rapists and murderers keep. [6] That they are ongoing on thousands more is proven by the to-date negative response to the 1953 DOD Secretary’s Memo [3], the ignored U.S. Senate 1994 Report [9] and the latest 2008 U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) [14], of their prior [5[, [7], [10], Reports. Deliberately avoided are their evidence and victim notification issues! In 2005 and 2006 Congress failed to pass the, "Veterans Right to Know Act"!
Each Executive Branch "guinea pigs" Project completes the R&D process. The prior lessons learned are reviewed. The then Scope of Work defines what the new experiment is designed to do. The how, where, when and who is identified. The conducted researched cause and effects are closely followed. From the results are developed safe production, in the field use with the needed medical histories for treatment and protection, e.g., the DOD Contractors handling of hazards such as Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, the chemical and biological agents of Project 112 [11] and the jet-engine noise levels of Project 7210 [2] as revealed in a service record [15]. The U.S. Supreme Court STANLEY was an investigational drug experiment. [4] STANLEY expanded the FERES coverage from the accidental "incident to service" to the deliberate, DOD can do no "designed to harm" wrong. All is in the Executive Branch record and GAO requested!
With this from 1944 to 2008, 64 year pattern of behavior these harmful events continue. This is supported by: A. No corrective action on the U.S. Supreme Court 1987 STANLEY expanded ‘can do no wrong’ Case. [4] and B. The 1988 establishment of a severely evidence restricted Veterans Court. A still followed STANLEY Footnote 4 is "it was necessary to conceal these activities from the american public in general, because public knowledge of the unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission." In 1994 the Chief Judge of the Veterans Court stated the still from 1988 ongoing evidence terminating, "The court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities or the policies underlying the schedule.", i.e., the order ignored "to harm" R&D experimental cause and effect "activities"! [8] Now, as in the past, these covered up "activities" are carried out under the self-destructive excuse of a for the greater good of all. As in 2008 performed on civilians under the treatment lost "national security missions" of the 19 December 2006 established "Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)".[13]
Thereby, DOD and Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Healthcare System, with the help of some in Congress, to-date prevented is treatment for the past and ongoing "designed to harm" human experiments. The U.S. State Department recorded the rights that convicted rapists and murderers keep [6] yet veterans have lost. Please hold your members in the U.S. Congress responsible.
REFERENCES:
[1] U.S. Supreme Court, Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950).
[2] United States Air Force (USAF) Project 7210 "A Compilation of Turbojet Noise Data", Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. Cambridge 38, MA. It documented the sound pressure levels for all jet-engines in DOD service. Conducted in 1952 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. 1954 logged in as the 401st. report for that year. Published as Report 54-401, July 1956. The American Medical Association (A.M.A.) Family Medical Guide Third Edition pages 364-366 notes that for each 6 dB. increase in sound level, sound pressure doubles.
[3] DOD Secretary's 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiment’s Memo pages 343-345. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, "The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). In Reference [9] as NOTES 72, 168 & 169.
[4] U.S. Supreme Court, June 25, 1987, U.S. V. Stanley, 107 S. Ct. 3054 (Volume 483 U.S., Section 669, Pages 699 to 710). In Reference [9] Cited in Note 169.
[5] 1993 U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) Report on Secret tests-http://archive.gao.gov/d37t11/148642.pdf
[6] U.S. State Dept., "U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Art. 7".
[7] GAO Testimony Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives. September 28, 1994 Human Experimentation.http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat2/152601.pdf
[8] Chief Judge Frank Q. Nebeker, State of the Court for Presentation to the United States Court of Veterans Appeals Third Judicial Conference October 17-18, 1994. In the Veterans Appeals Reporter. www.firebase.net/state_of_court_brief.htm Annual Judicial Conference Transcript. www. goodnet.com/~heads/nebeker
[9] U.S. Senate December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century." Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session. With NOTES 1 to 170. Committee Print - S. Print. 103-97.
[10] GAO May 1997, DEFENSE HEALTH CARE, www.gao.gov/archive/1997/ns97136.pdf
[11] "Project 112 (Including Project SHAD) Home" chemical and biological experiments; www. 1.va.gov/shad/
[12] United States Code (USC) Title 38, 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality. http://www. law.cornell.edu/
[13] "Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)" S-3678.
[14] The 2008 GAO Report On Chemical and Biological Tests conducted on American Veterans. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08366.pdf
[15] An ongoing VA 17 years 4 April 2008 Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) letter. It states that the veterans Project 7210 "claims file was received at the Board on January 28, 2006. However, despite extensive search efforts, we are currently unable to locate your file.", i.e., misplaced are the USAF 1952-1956 and subsequent "permanently medically disqualified for military service" records!
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