The New York Times has an article today about a New England Journal of Medicine article citing interrogators who report that doctors aided them at Guantanamo.

Several ethics experts outside the military said there were serious questions involving the conduct of the doctors, especially those in units known as Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, BSCT, colloquially referred to as "biscuit" teams, which advise interrogators. "Their purpose was to help us break them," one former interrogator told The Times earlier this year.

However, these reports are not new.

In August, 2004, a leading British medical journal published an article that criticized the medical ethics of the U.S. military at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and in Afghanistan. So did the New England Journal of Medicine.

And in January, 2005, the New England Journal of Medicine released an article by a Georgetown University law professor implicating army doctors in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

For some additional insight, this op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle by Alfred McCoy on the CIA's history of torture is well-worth reading. McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of "The Politics of Heroin," an examination of the CIA's alliances with drug lords, and "Closer Than Brothers," a study of the impact of the CIA's psychological torture method upon the Philippine military.