Report: Med ethics broken at Guantanamo

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- An upcoming report claims the Pentagon violated medical ethics by using military doctors as part of the interrogation of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University, and Jonathan Marks, a bioethics fellow at Georgetown University Law Center used previously undisclosed military documents to show doctors and mental health professionals were integrated into the interrogation process.

In their report, which will appear in the July 7 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, they also allege the healthcare providers were told detainees didn't enjoy medical confidentiality and to provide information on prisoners' physical or mental health to interrogators even if they weren't asked to do so.

However, Pentagon officials deny the claims, the Wall Street Journal said.

"To date, no investigation has produced credible evidence of military physician participation in the inhumane treatment of detainees," a Pentagon spokeswoman said.