Reframing the CIA’s interrogation techniques as a violation of scientific and medical ethics may be the best way to achieve accountability.

Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA’s torture program. The experimental nature of the interrogation and detention techniques is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report, despite redactions (insisted upon by the CIA) to obfuscate the locations of these laboratories of cruel science and the identities of perpetrators.

The founder of a prostitution ring that trafficked teenage girls from Georgia to Maryland was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Friday — far short of the life term prosecutors had sought but still significant punishment for a man a judge called a “small-time pimp.”