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: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Monday May 04 2015, @03:50AM
I am starting to think it may be time to re-write the bill of rights.
Because adding a "this time we mean it" clause will be just as ignorable as everything that gets ignored.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 04 2015, @01:21PM
The "this time we mean it" clause is not written, but enacted by citizens hanging the politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and power brokers in Washington DC. That's about the most definitive "we mean it" thing you can do.
Washington DC delenda est.