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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: 2) by cafebabe on Monday May 04 2015, @02:02PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday May 04 2015, @02:02PM (#178496) Journal

    Psychologists have a lot more training in psychology than psychiatrists do.

    Quack Type 1 has more training in Quackery Type 1 than Quack Type 2.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:33PM (#178742)

    Psychologists have a lot more training in psychology than psychiatrists do.

    Quack Type 1 has more training in Quackery Type 1 than Quack Type 2.

    Because neuroscience and pharmacology are nothing but quackery. Psychology is an extremely big field and deals with everything involving the brain, nerves, the mind, behavior, drugs and how they affect the mind and behavior, and much, much more. That's all just quackery with no real science or evidence backing it though, right?