Do DoD and corporate perpetrators of the Targeted Individual Program believe that the tortures they inflict upon innocent Americans and other citizens in the world are legal? Some claim that they do believe that… and this section 3024 of the 21st century Cures Act may hold the legal justification.
SEC. 3024. INFORMED CONSENT WAIVER OR ALTERATION FOR CLIN-
ICAL INVESTIGATIONS.
(a) DEVICES.—Section 520(g)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360j(g)(3)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘except where subject
to such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, the investi-
gator’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘except where, subject to
such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe—
‘‘(i) the proposed clinical testing poses no more than
minimal risk to the human subject and includes appro-
priate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare
of the human subject; or
‘‘(ii) the investigator’’; and
(2) in the matter following subparagraph (D), by striking
‘‘subparagraph (D)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (D)(ii)’’.
(b) DRUGS.—Section 505(i)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355(i)(4)) is amended by striking ‘‘except
where it is not feasible or it is contrary to the best interests
of such human beings’’ and inserting ‘‘except where it is not feasible,
it is contrary to the best interests of such human beings, or the
proposed clinical testing poses no more than minimal risk to such
human beings and includes appropriate safeguards as prescribed
to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of such human beings’’.
Subtitle D—Patient Access to Therapies and Information