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Psychologists Met in Secret with Bush Officials to Help Justify Torture – Report

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 03 2015, @06:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-the-Hippocratic-oath? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Monday May 04 2015, @03:53AM

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Monday May 04 2015, @03:53AM (#178311)

    How many Freudian psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

    Two. One to screw in the bulb, the other to hold the cock mother ladder!

    --
    Genius by birth. Evil by choice.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @04:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @04:46AM (#178317)

    How many Freudian psychiatrists

    Ha, ha. But do you know that one of the things that happened to psychoanalysis in United States is that they were required to be psychiatrists, holding a Medical degree? And as I am sure your therapist has told you, there is this thing called "resistance". The more you reject a particular psychological explanation of your disorder, the more likely it is true. I feel we are on the edge of a great breakthrough on your relation with your mother, or ladders. Wait a minute, let me get out the electrodes and fire up the ol' "Truthinator".