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First Psychologists Designed Torture, Then Lawyers Justified It

Today, on the In These Times website, Fredrick Clarkson hones in on more of what the recently released Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report reveals about the central role played by psychologists in “in devising, directing and overseeing the torture of prisoners.”
Clarkson writes:
Early in the Senate report, we learn that the SERE program’s adaptation began [...]

Continuing Torture Revelations Create Momentum Toward Commission

We call on the President of the United States to establish an independent, non-partisan commission to examine and report publicly on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in the period since September 11, 2001. The commission, comparable in stature to the 9/11 Commission, should look into the facts and circumstances of such [...]

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