The leading American professional group for psychologists secretly worked with the Bush administration to help justify the post-9/11 US detainee torture program, according to a watchdog analysis [PDF] released on Thursday.
The report, written by six leading health professionals and human rights activists, is the first to examine the alleged complicity of the American Psychological Association (APA) in the “enhanced interrogation” program.
Based on an analysis of more than 600 newly disclosed emails, the report found that the APA coordinated with Bush-era government officials – namely in the CIA, White House and Department of Defense – to help ethically justify the interrogation policy in 2004 and 2005, when the program came under increased scrutiny for prisoner abuse by US military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
A series of clandestine meetings with US officials led to the creation of “an APA ethics policy in national security interrogations which comported with then-classified legal guidance authorizing the CIA torture program,” the report’s authors found.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/psychologists-bush-officials-torture-program
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday May 04 2015, @01:38AM
gewg might be an asshole, but you're wrong A/C.
It really doesn't cost that much to come to New Zealand. You're buying a one way ticket, and when you get here, you're very welcome.
Our Government has an odd attitude to immigrants, and from what I understand the process for getting a work visa can be long winded, but I can tell you that the locals will be very friendly, the culture is similar enough that you will fit right in.
You will need to learn to spell asshole arsehole though.