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Legal Opinion Needed? Consult a Psychologist

By John Bradshaw on February 24, 2010

The newly released report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR report) shows not only that John Yoo and Jay Bybee created disgracefully flawed legal analysis but also that they tried to justify that reasoning by using bad science. As PHR has previously reported, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) exploited [...]

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New Yorker: Former APA President Worked with CIA and on Board of Mitchell and Jessen

By Nathaniel Raymond on June 14, 2009

Perhaps the most interesting revelation in Jane Mayer’s latest New Yorker article on the CIA and US torture policy comes as an aside, towards the end. Ongoing investigations by PHR and others, including investigative journalists, are discovering disturbing connections between American Psychological Association officials involved in developing the ethics standards governing psychologists’ participation in interrogations [...]

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Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

By Ben Greenberg on May 1, 2009

ABC News reports that psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1000/day to design and implement the US torture program.
According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.
Bruce Jessen [...]

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First Psychologists Designed Torture, Then Lawyers Justified It

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 [...]

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