Shimkus, Albert - short clip - BSCT-Behavioral Science Control Team
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| - | There was something called the biscuit, | 0:00 |
| behavioral science control team. | 0:02 | |
| And so I forget exactly when they came on the scene | 0:04 | |
| but it was probably March, April, | 0:07 | |
| something like that, of 2002 | 0:11 | |
| and behavioral science control team | 0:15 | |
| came to see me based on the fact | 0:20 | |
| that they were medical professionals | 0:21 | |
| and they knew I was the JTF surgeon | 0:23 | |
| and they wanted access to the detainee | 0:25 | |
| and to work with the medical staff | 0:31 | |
| with the detainee population. | 0:35 | |
| And so we had a discussion about what their purpose was. | 0:37 | |
| And so it was my decision, | 0:41 | |
| as soon as I understood what their purpose was, | 0:43 | |
| in which they decided, once they told me was | 0:46 | |
| that they were there to assist the interrogators | 0:48 | |
| with the interrogation process. | 0:53 | |
| And I said, in my view, you can't be both a caregiver | 0:55 | |
| and be assisting the interrogators. | 1:00 | |
| So I partitioned them very specifically away | 1:03 | |
| from the caregiving of the detainee population. | 1:06 | |
| And in fact, our discussions became very limited | 1:11 | |
| because I had no bearing in which, | 1:16 | |
| no situation in which I could foresee them | 1:21 | |
| being credentialed by me to give care. | 1:24 | |
| And I was the credentialing authority | 1:27 | |
| for all the physicians in the JTF. | 1:28 | |
| And so there were psychologists | 1:30 | |
| and psychiatrists who were advising the interrogators | 1:32 | |
| on interrogation techniques | 1:38 | |
| but it was not, they were not part of my medical team. | 1:39 |
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