Monday, October 10, 2011 Crisi Pleas from Occupy Boston: Help Needed Tonight! (2 comments)
Occupy Boston desperately needs help -- people, food, water, tents, sleeping bags, and protest calls to Boston Mayor Mennino -- tonight!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 The Maker or the Tool (1 comments)
A new book by Jean Alonso provides a rare look at the profound negative effects of work in many factories have upon the workers.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Comprehensive Soldier Fitness critique in Washington Post
The article that I wrote with Roy Eidelson and Marc Pilisuk critiquing the military's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program is discussed in a Washington Post article on CSF.
Sunday, June 19, 2011 Tahrir Square in Manhattan
Activists in New York have adopted the tactics of the Egyptian activists -- and of their Spanish and Greek fellow activists -- who occupied Tahrir Square as a center of protest activity.
Monday, June 13, 2011 Torture Accountability After All? (2 comments)
Monday's news that Justice Department prosecutor John Durham is actively investigating a CIA-related homicide at bu Ghraib gives hope that there may be some torture accountability after all.
Sunday, May 1, 2011 Guantanamo Doctors Fail to Document Torture: Independent Scrutiny Needed
A new study reports that Guantanamo health providers fail to investigate or document torture. This ethical lapse is further evidence that outside scrutiny of Guantanamo medical practices is necessary.
Monday, January 31, 2011 PsySR Calls on U.S. to Support Democratic Change in the Middle East
Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) has issued the statement below in solidarity with the brave protesters. We call upon leaders of the United States to stand in support of democratic change in the region.
Monday, January 3, 2011 PsySR Open Letter on PFC Bradley Manning's Solitary Confinement (8 comments)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) is concerned about the deleterious effects of the solitary confinement in which Bradley Manning is being held.
Monday, November 1, 2010 Fleecing members joins torture collusion as APA ethical lapse
The American Psychological Association has become known for its complicity in the Bush-era torture program. Now it turns out that they have also been fleecing their members of tens of millions of dollars obtained through a voluntary assessment they told members was "mandatory."
Monday, October 25, 2010 Iraq War Logs: Early highlights (4 comments)
The Wikileaks release of the Iraq War Logs on Friday has rightly aroused great interest. Here are highlights from early reporting.
Sunday, October 17, 2010 Coalition Calls for Investigation of Allegations Concerning Martin Seligman, Denounces APA Inaction
The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology calls for an investigation of the reasons psychologist Martin Seligman received a $31 million no-bid contract. Seligman was previously reported to have had at least two meeting with CIA torture psychologists and the torture program was based on Seligman's theory of "learned helplessness."
Sunday, October 3, 2010 Guatemalan Research Horrors and US Hypocrisy: CIA Unethical Research Ignored (4 comments)
The US recently apologized for research abuses in Guatemala nearly 65 years ago. But, so far, no US official has commented on simi8larly unethical CIA torture research conducted far more recently.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 CYA for the CIA: The CIA's Torture Research Program (9 comments)
A new report of which I am a coauthor, Experiments in Torture, just released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) confirms previous suspicions and provides the first strong evidence that the CIA was indeed engaged in illegal and unethical research on detainees in its custody.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 The "Black Jail": Obama's Afghan Torture Center and the American Psychological Association
A recent pair of articles by Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic has shed new light upon the secret "black jail" on the Bagram Air Base. Among other aspects, these new revelations suggest that psychologists may be playing a major role inside the facility, raising questions about the reasons for American Psychological Association (APA) lobbying activities in support of the agency that Ambinder reports is running the detention center.
Sunday, April 18, 2010 Second Taping System Facilitated Zubaydah Experiments (1 comments)
In a new Truthout article, Jason Leopold reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee is initiating an investigation of the CIA's treatment of Abu Zubaydah.
Friday, March 12, 2010 Iceland Sets New Path Toward Press Freedom (4 comments)
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [IMMI] draws upon the best press and information freedom laws from around the world. If passed, it will put Iceland at the forefront of information freedom. It may also help protect media organizations worldwide.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Justice Department protects the torture lawyers, persecutes the ethical (1 comments)
While the Department of Justice was busy protecting the torture attorneys and abusive prosecutors, it was relentlessly persecuting a former attorney who gave correct, but undesired, legal advice and refused to go along with official lies about it.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 The End of the Obama Administration (17 comments)
Tonight's Afghanistan escalation speech marks the end of the Obama administration. All we are left with is the Audacity of Disgust.
Monday, November 16, 2009 Psychiatrist warns of potential for violence among returning Marines (2 comments)
A psychiatrist treating Marines at Camp Lejeune warned repeatedly of the danger of violence by Marines recently returned from combat. He was fired as a consequence.
Friday, October 16, 2009 Refusal to investigate Guantanamo psychogist ethics complaint appealed (3 comments)
The Center for Constitutional Rights has appealed the refusal by the Louisiana psychology licensing board to investigate ethics charges against Dr. Larry James for his activities as chief intelligence psychologist at Guantanamo in 2003. James is now a Dean at Wright State University in Ohio.
Friday, August 14, 2009 Boycott Whole Foods; CEO against healthcare, and food and shelter, as a right (6 comments)
The Whole Foods CEO used a Wall Street Journal op ed to attack the concept of healthcare as a right. Instead, he advocated personal responsibility. Perhap its time for Whole Foods customers to responsibly boycott the chain.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The American Psychological Association and the Missing Ethics Investigation (3 comments)
In 1999 noted Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley filed an ethics complaint with the American Psychological Association against Navy psychologist Michael Gelles for allegedly participating in the abusive interrogation of Navy Petty Officer Daniel King. The APA refused to investigate the complaint, even ignoring a crucial videotape. Later they appointed Gelles to a task force on interrogation ethics.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 Will the American Psychological Association finally renounce the Nuremberg Defense? (3 comments)
In 2002, the American Psychological Association added the Nuremberg ["just following orders"] Defense to its ethics code for psychologists.This ethics standard allows ignoring professional ethics when they conflict with law or orders, as in systematic detainee abuse. Conflict over removal of this defense has been ongoing since 2005. The APA just postponed any decision for another six months.
Friday, July 10, 2009 US officials blocked Afghan mass murder investigations (3 comments)
Bush administration officials blocked investigations of the mass murder of thousands of Taliban prisoners by Gen. Doshtun's forces in 2001 Afghanistan.
Monday, June 29, 2009 Open Letter in Response to the American Psychological Association Board (3 comments)
Today a number of psychological, health, and human rights organizations released the following statement criticizing the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Directors failure to accept responsibility for the APA's role in facilitating psychologists' participation in abusive national security interrogations.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 Former American Psychological Association President had long time CIA connection (2 comments)
Jane Mayer recently revealed that former American Psychological Association President Joseph Matarazzo has had a long-term CIA connection.Matarazzo had previously been tied to Mitchell Jessen & Aoocites, the CIA's torture firm. Interestingly, other evidence suggests that Matarazzo's CIA involvement was pre-911.
Monday, June 15, 2009 Psychologists for Social Responsibility praises Bermuda government (2 comments)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility [PsySR] has issued a statement in support of the Bermuda government's willingness to take in four of the Uighers who have been wrongfully imprisoned at Guantanamo for many years.
Sunday, June 7, 2009 NY Times ignores evidence of White House pressure behind torture memos (7 comments)
The New York Times, in another of its infamous failures to challenge the interests of the insiders, distorted the meaning of leaked emails from former Justice Department lawyer James Comey on approval of the 2005 torture memos. The Times ignored that the memos demonstrated the intense White house pressure for approval of torture, which undercuts any claim that the memos reflect a dispassionate legal analysis.
Sunday, May 24, 2009 Spain copies US practice of universal jurisdiction (3 comments)
The US objects to Spanish judges' investigations of US officials allegedly responsible for torture. But Spain, in asserting universal jurisdiction, is only following US precedent.
Monday, May 18, 2009 Mental Health professionals' letter asks Michelle Obama to investigate diagnostic abuse of veterans
I recently published an article - Diagnostic abuse of veterans and the dilemmas of health professional ethics - on Army pressures for mental health clinicians to not diagnose post traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] in returning soldiers. A group of approximately 130 psychologists and mental health professionals responded to my article by writing Michelle Obama and asking her to look into these charges.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 APA ethics policy-maker clarifies defense of torture; reveals American Psychological Association - Pentagon collusion (8 comments)
Bryce Lefever, a military psychologist who participated in the American Psychological Association's ethics task force on psychologist participation in interrogations again defended US torture tactics and provided further evidence of collusion between the APA and the Bush administration in order to keep psychologists aiding US interrogations.
Monday, May 11, 2009 Torture increases terrorist attacks, political scientists find (4 comments)
Daurius Rejali, in his book "Torture and Democracy," argued that the efficacy of torture was incorrectly argued at the level of the individual torture victim. The tortured will talk, and some of what they say may be true, just with the non-tortured, he argued. The right level to discuss this issue is at the level of entire torture programs.
Sunday, May 10, 2009 'Sleep deprivation': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice (1 comments)
"Sleep deprivation," as used by the CIA in its enhanced interrogation program included being shackled to the floor and ceiling for days on end, adding to the torment. Sleep deprivation has long been recognized as torture, especially useful for generating false confessions. We must recognize sleep deprivation as psychological torture, so that its use does not return.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 New article elucidates military psychologists' complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup (1 comments)
A new story on Salon and ProPublica provides further details of military psychologists' complicity in US torture. Despite any personal reservations, they helped implement the administration plan to reverse-engineer SERE-based torture techniques. The American Psychological Association then appointed the same military psychologists to formulate its "ethics" policy on interrogation support.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Investigation of American Psychological Association Torture Collusion (8 comments)
Recently released emails raise concerns about American Psychological Association collusion with the Bush administration Pentagon in formulating ethics policies legitimizing psychologists aiding abusive interrogations. The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology calls for an independent investigation of potential APA-DoD collusion.
Monday, May 4, 2009 American Psychological Association ethics policy-maker endorses torture (7 comments)
Military psychologist Bryce Lefever tonight endorsed the military and CIA's use of torture techniques developed by the military's SERE program. Lefever's ethical opinions are especially important as he was one of the military psychologists the American Psychological Association turned to to formulate its "ethics" policy regarding psychologist participation in interrogations.
Monday, April 27, 2009 Bioethicist Steven Miles joins call for investigation of American Psychological Association ties to military (3 comments)
Bioethicist Steven Miles joins the call for an investigation of the American Psychological Association's ties to the military-intelligence establishment that led to its continuing to support psychologist participation in US national security interrogations long past the point where it was obvious that psychologists had designed, conducted, standardized, and legitimated US torture.
Monday, April 20, 2009 Obama, Blair, and Panetta praise the moral cowards, ignore the true heroes (2 comments)
In their statements accompanying the release of the Justice Department torture memos Thursday, President Obama, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and CIA Director Leon Panetta praised the CIA's torturers as heroes. This is an insult to the true heroes, those who fought, and often suffered, for their opposition to state-sponsored torture.
Saturday, April 11, 2009 Obama and human rights: Shame on me (24 comments)
Unlike candidate Obama, President Obama finds few human rights he is bound to respect.
Thursday, April 9, 2009 Diagnostic abuse of veterans and the dilemmas of health professional ethics (8 comments)
Salon has reported evidence that the Army is pressuring mental health professionals not to give diagnoses of post traumatic stress disorder. This abuse requires systemic and ethical reform.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 John Brennan and the administration stalling on Bush torture memos (7 comments)
Last November we opposed John Brennan for CIA director because he was insufficiently critical of CIA abuses, including its "enhanced interrogation" torture program. He withdrew his name, but was rewarded with another top counterterrorism position. Today we hear that Brennan is one of the administration figures leading the fight against releasing the Bush administration torture memos. We cannot let him succeed.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Torture of Abu Zubaida, designed by psychologists, yielded nothing (4 comments)
The first of the CIA's "enhanced interrogations," that of Abu Zubaida,led to nothing other than tens of thousands of investigatory hours wasted chasing fairy stories he told to get the pain to stop, the Washington Post reports today. The CIA torture program that failed so miserably was designed by psychologists. The American Psychological Association invited these very psychologists to a 2003 CIA-APA Conference.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 Is parents' rally in Boston a harbinger of wider protests? (2 comments)
Hundreds of parents in Boston rallied at the state legislature to protest school cutbacks. are movements like this occurring throughout the country? Might these movements be harbingers of a new democratic revival?
Monday, March 16, 2009 New Doubts Regarding the Lancet Iraq Mortality Study (4 comments)
The sanction by his university of the lead author of one of the Lancet studies of Iraq mortality raises questions as to how closely the study's methodology was followed. Unless additional details are provided, this study can no longer be counted as a reliable estimate of Iraqi deaths since the war.
Monday, March 9, 2009 Wikileaks Alert: Murder in Nairobi
Wikileaks reports that two human rights workers associated with Wikileaks have been murdered in Nairobi. These killings are apparently connected to Wikileaks' exposure of thousands of "disappearances" and extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police. Urgent assistance, including financial, is requested.
Friday, February 13, 2009 Less effective is best! Drug and medical equipment manufacturers attempted hijacking of stimulus bill (4 comments)
The drug companies, medical equipment manufacturers, and disease advocacy groups joined forces to attempt to gut the stimulus bill's money for research on the comparative effectiveness of treatments. Those groups don't want us to know whether some expensive treatments are worse or no better than cheaper treatments.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 The Attorney General Designee Must Make A Clear Statement Against Torture
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing regarding Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. We must pressure members of the committee to ask him to take a clear stand against torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
Sunday, October 12, 2008 Public at Last: Guantanamo SERE Standard Operating Procedures (1 comments)
One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program -- the JTF GTMO "SERE" Interrogation Standard Operating Procedure -- has just become publicly available for the first time.
Friday, October 10, 2008 Fabulous new film showing on Public Television: Torturing Democracy
Starting tonight, Public Television will be viewing the fabulous new documentary Torturing Democracy, which is a new film relaying the history of U.S. torture in the war on terror.
Monday, September 22, 2008 Psychologists Reject the Dark Side: American Psychological Association Members Reject Participation in Bush Detention Ce (5 comments)
Members of the American Psychological Association decisively rejected psychologists' participation in U.S. Detention centers. By a vote of 59% to 41% they voted to bar psychologists from participating at the centers unless they work directly for the detainee or an NGO. After years of struggle, this constitutes a decisive change in APA policy ad a turning away from the dark side.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Petition for dropping charges against "child soldier" Mohammad Jawad (2 comments)
ohammad Jawad - arrested when he was 16 or 17 on highly questionable charges of throwing a grenade at US troops - has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for 5 1/2 years. Now he is up on war crimes charges. His defense attorney has launched a letter-writing and petition campaign.
Sunday, August 10, 2008 Vote Against Torture Collusion: Psychologists Vote on Referendum Against Participating in Bush Regime Detention Centers (2 comments)
The American Psychological Association has been racked with controversy over the role of psychologists in Bush regime detainee interrogations. Psychologist opponents of the APA position have, for the first time in APA history, organized a referendum to change APA policy. They ask the APA membership to reject psychologists' participation when such sites are in violation of international law or the Constitution.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The Torture Trainers and the American Psychological Association (7 comments)
Recent revelations on US torture and detainee abuse provide further evidence that psychologists were central to developing the abusive tactics. Despite numerous links between torturers and the American Psychological Association, the APA still refuses to take action to break, or even comment upon these links.
Sunday, June 8, 2008 Accountability for Torture At Last? (10 comments)
Recent developments suggest that accountability for US torture may be on the horizon. The Homeland Security Inspector General is reopening an investigation of how Canadian Maher Arar was sent to be tortured in Syria. and nearly 60 Congresspeople have urged appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Bush administration responsibility for torture. The health professions also need accountability for abetting US torture.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Involuntary Drugging of Deportees: Part of a Pattern of Misuse of Health Professions
Recent reports that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has been systematically administering psychotropic drugs to immigrants in the process of being deported are part of a larger pattern of misuse of the health professions by the Bush administration.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 Isolation driving Guantanamo detainees insane: Will the American Psychological Association act? (1 comments)
The total isolation for most detainees at Guantanamo is driving many of these detainees insane, the New York Times reports. The American Psychological Association says that use of isolation is unethical, yet it has failed to condemn conditions at Guantanamo or follow its policies and forbid psychologists cooperating with the abusive conditions there.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Involuntary Drugging of US Detainees: A Crisis for the Health Professions (7 comments)
recent reports on involuntary drugging of US detainees adds to the evidence that health professionals are key actors in US detention and interrogation abuses. This involvement poses a crisis for the health professions. We need a Truth and Reconciliation process for these professions to come to terms with US abuses.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 Wikileaks responds to Bank Julius Baer lies (2 comments)
In the battle against the totally unprecedented judicial censorship of the entire Wikileaks.org web site, Wikileaks (still available at Wikileaks.be) has issued an editorial rebutting a number of false claims (i.e., lies) contained in press release issued by Bank Julius Baer & Trust, the bank that asked the judge to shut Wikileaks.org down.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Update on Wikileaks censorship. Costly mistake for bank? (3 comments)
Late last week, the whistleblower site wikileaks.org was wiped out by court order requested by lawyers for Bank Julius Baer. This article updates the story, including that the bank was preparing to issue a $1 billion IPO, an offer that maybe scuttled from the torrent of publicity from their lawyer's actions.
Monday, February 18, 2008 US court attacks web freedom; enjoins Wikileaks.org out of existence (17 comments)
The Wikileaks web site has been an invaluable source for releasing formerly secret materials revealing wrongdoing of the powerful. In an unprecedented step, a California court has enjoined them Wikileaks.org, their primary web identity in the US, out of existence in response to a request from a Cayman Islands bank. This attack on internet freedom is a threat to us all.
Monday, February 4, 2008 US Iraq Rules of Engagement leaked; Raises question about Rumsfeld authorizing war crimes (1 comments)
The just leaked Rules of Engagement for the Iraq occupation suggests there may be a documentary record of Defense Secretary authorizations for attacks with potentially significant civilian casualties. Congress should demand access to this record.
Thursday, January 17, 2008 American and California Psychological Associations move to gut bill on interrogations
A major battle is shaping up in California where a coalition is working to remove health providers from participating in military and CIA interrogations. Senator Ridley-Thomas has introduced a resolution that would request the military and CIA to remove all California licenses health providers from involvement in detainee interrogations. Proposed revisions by the American Psychological Association will gut the bill.
Sunday, January 13, 2008 Action Opportunity for California Residents: Get health professionals out of interrogations!
Monday will see an important hearing in the California legislature on a resolution to attempt to stop California licensed health professionals from participating in the interrogation of national security detainees. This bill is a major opportunity to stop health provider collusion with the Bush administration's legally sanctioned torture. California residents are encouraged to support it.
Friday, December 28, 2007 Fallujah, the Information War, and U.S. Propaganda:
A 2006 classified intelligence analysis of the aborted April 2004 Fallujah assault has just been leaked on the Wikileaks site. The document provides insights into the U.S. "information war" and the extent to which "Western reporters" were considered part of that war. It also elucidates the tactics used in the "successful" November 2004 assault. But the document also shows US intelligence blinded by propaganda.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Guantanamo staff trashing web sites and spreading propoganda
Staff at the Guantanamo base have been conducting amateurish propaganda efforts, the Wikileaks web site revealed today. Wikipedia reports that a Guantanamo IP addresss has been used to revise Wikipedia entries and to post self-serving propaganda pieces on web news sites.
Friday, December 7, 2007 Did destroyed CIA tapes show psychologists torturing? Did APA dodge a bullet?
Last night we had news that the CIA, in 2005, destroyed videotapes of the "interrogation", aka, torture, of two al Qaeda detainees. One of these detainees has been identified as Abu Zubaydah. Of special relevance is that Zubaydah was tortured by psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. If these tapes had come out, would the American Psychological Association have finally spoken out forcefully against these abuses?
Monday, December 3, 2007 The Facts be Damned! Psychologists' President Defends Psychologist Participation in Detainee Interrogations (1 comments)
American Psychological Association President Brehm recently defended her association's policies allowing psychologists to aid the Bush administrations interrogations of enemy detainees from criticism by concerned students and faculty at her campus. Some of her statements i defense of APA policy were at variance with the facts while others were in conflict with fundamental propositions of Brehm's social psychology/
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Pinky Show interview: Fear, Aggression, & Empire
What can psychoanalysis teach us about how we Americans understand our place in the world? Dr. Stephen Soldz talks with Pinky about narcissism, projection, and an enormous lost opportunity of our post-Cold War era. (
Saturday, November 17, 2007 Leaked Guantanamo Document Confirms Routine Use of Isolation as Psychological Torture. Will APA Protest? (2 comments)
Recently a major 2003 Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures [SOP] manual was posted on the wikileaks web site. This SOP confirms that all new detainees were subjected to a minimum of four weeks near-isolation to foster detainee dependence on interrogators. Isolation is a highly abusive interrogation technique that causes long-lasting harm. Psychologists were undoubtedly involved in its administration.
Monday, November 5, 2007 American Psychological Association Writes the Administration and Congress Criticizing Torture: Modest Progress (3 comments)
In a recent set of letters to Congress and the Administration, the American Psychological Association has taken a more critical stance towards the Bush regime of torture that has shocked the world over the last several years. While the letters represent an advance in the APA's position, serious problems remain with APA's approach. APA is too tied to the military-intelligence establishment to take a truly ethical position.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 Letter to Senate Intelligence Committee: Psychologists out of Abusive Interrogations
A broad coalition of psychologists sent a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today. The letter expresses their concerns about psychologist involvement in the CIA's "enhanced interrogations" and other abusive interrogations. It requests the Committee investigate the role of psychologists in abuses and take action to protect psychologists and other health providers from involvement in future abuses.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Baiting and killing, one Iraqi at a time (1 comments)
Yesterday the Washington Post reported that American snipers are using weapons to bait Iraqis. They spread various weapons parts around and then killed anyone curious enough about the stuff to pick it up. Juan Cole ponders whether this is a war crime. But it turns out that not just weapons parts are being used to bait Iraqis, but even cameras. As if no innocent Iraqi would pick up a spare camera.
Friday, September 14, 2007 New study: Over one million Iraqis killed by violence since invasion
A new survey by a mainstream British polling firm has estimated that over one million Iraqis have died since the invasion. This provides important independent replication of the findings of a 2006 study, published in the British medical journal Lancet, which estimated 650,000 "excess deaths" since the 2003 invasion. The case is now stronger that many hundreds of thousands have died.
Friday, August 24, 2007 Author Mary Pipher returns award to American Psychological Association (2 comments)
For years psychologists have played a central role in our government's policy of abusive interrogations. . Despite pressure, the American Psychological Association has failed to take decisive action to stop these unethical uses of psychological expertise. Psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Mary Pipher has decided to return her Presidential Citation award from the APA in protest.
Sunday, July 22, 2007 "Enhanced" Interrogation Techniques: The Risk of Criminality (4 comments)
On Friday President Bush issued an Executive Order allowing the CIA to resume its program of "enhanced interrogation techniques", widely condemned as abusive. In response, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First released a summary of their forthcoming report on the criminality of the CIA's "enhanced techniques."
Thursday, July 19, 2007 Psychologists respond to Vanity Fair revelations on psychologists' responsibility for CIA torture (1 comments)
Vanity Fair Tuesday published shocking revelations on the role of psychologists in designing and conducting the CIA's torture regime in the black sites. These techniques then spread to Guantanamo and Iraq. the Coalition for an Ethical APA responds to this report by demanding major reforms in the American Psychological Association.
