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Ben Greenberg on
May 5, 2009
Today ProPublica and Salon.com have posted online emails from the list-serve of the 2005 APA ethics task force on national security interrogations (PDF). The internal APA documents indicate that the APA developed its ethics policy to conform with Pentagon guidelines governing psychologist participation in interrogations.
Physicians for Human Rights is calling for an independent, outside [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged american psychological association, apa, inspector general, nathaniel raymond, pens, pentagon, presidential taskforce on psychological ethics and national security, sasc, senate armed services committee, steven reisner, us senate
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 26, 2009
On Wednesday, just after the Senate Armed Services Committee released its report on the Bush Administration’s torture program, Firedoglake hosted a live online chat with Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture. Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith introduced the online discussion, saying:
As the details spill out, again and again two names keep appearing — James Mitchell and [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged 9/11, abu ghraib, afghanistan, al qaeda, alberto mora, ama, american medical association, american psychological association, apa, appendix m, army field manual, bagram, barack obama, binyam mohamed, british high court, bruce jessen, carl levin, central intelligence agency, christy hardin smith, cia, daniel baumgartner, david irvine, department of defense, department of justice, diane feinstein, dod, doj, eric holder, firedoglake, geneva convention, gerald gary, gottfried bill, gtmo, how to break a terrorist, interrogation, iraq, isolation, ivan fredericks, james mitchell, japan, jay bybee, jerald ogrisseg, jim haynes, john durham, john yoo, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, kenzaburo oe, leonard rubenstein, maher arar, major general antonio taguba, matt alexander, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond, npr, nuremberg, nurses, office of legal counsel, office of professional responsibility, olc, phillip zimbardo, physician complicity, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, robert segal, sasc, senate armed services committee, sensory deprivation, sere tactics, sheldon whitehouse, sleep deprivation, special mission units, stanford prison experiment, steven bradbury, steven kleinman, taliban, us attorney, us congress, vietnam, waterboarding, white house, wwii
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 23, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged al qaeda, central intelligence agency, cia, fredrick clarkson, gtmo, guantanamo bay, in these times, international committee of the red cross, interrogations, james mitchell, jfcom, john bruce jessen, joint forces command, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, major charles burney, pens, pentagon, presidential task force on psychological ethics and national security, sasc, senate armed services committee, sere, steven reisner
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By
Sara Greenberg on
April 22, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged 9/11 commission, afghanistan, american psychological association, apa, barack obama, bush administration, carl levin, commissiononaccountability.org, donald rumsfeld, dual loyalty, eric holder, guantanamo bay, icrc, international committee of the red cross, iraq, medical ethics, office of legal counsel, olc, pens, president of the united states, presidential task force on psychological ethics and national security, psychological research, sasc, senate armed services committee, us congress, us constitution
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By
Nathaniel Raymond on
April 22, 2009
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has released its report detailing how senior leadership at the Pentagon authorized psychologists to violate their ethics and break the law. The new revelations further confirm what the evidence in last week’s “torture memos,” and in earlier revelations, has shown: psychologists have justified, designed and implemented torture for the [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged barack obama, central intelligence agency, cia, department of defense, dod, pentagon, president obama, psychologists, senate armed services committee, torture memos
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 22, 2009
Last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released a report, developed over two years, detailing the origins and implementation of the Bush Administration’s torture program (PDF, 15 MB). The SASC report is the latest and most comprehensive account of the Bush Administration’s regime of torture and the central role health professionals played. Senator Carl [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, afghanistan, alberty gonzales, bush administration, carl levin, department of defence, dick cheney, gtmo, guantanamo bay, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, justice department, paul wolfowitz, president george w. bush, psychologists, sasc, secretary of defense, senate armed services committee, steven reisner, white house counsel
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