5 Articles
Friday, September 4, 2009
Broken Faith: How a Navy Psychologist Drove A U.S. Prisoner to Attempt Suicide
Los Angeles attorney Robert A. Bailey, formerly a military JAG officer, and one of the lawyers in the Daniel King case, spoke to me a few weeks ago in some detail about the controversial King interrogation. Bailey described to me how the abusive interrogation King endured, and the betrayal of the military psychologist he thought would help him, led King to a suicidal breakdown.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Expose: Former Top Navy Psychologist Involved in Pre-9/11 Prisoner Abuse Case
A well-known spokesman for ethical interrogations by psychologists in national security settings, Dr. Michael Gelles, then Chief Forensic Psychologist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, was himself accused in 2001 of unethical behavior for his part in the interrogation of a suspect in an espionage case. His work on the Daniel King case was referred for ethical violations to the APA, who refused to investigate.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
SERE Psychologists Still Used in Special Ops Interrogations and Detention
A new Air Force Special Operations Command Instruction (48-101) on "Aeromedical Special Operations" describes the current use of SERE psychologists as Special Forces psychologists. Moreover, it puts them in charge of "psychological oversight of battlefield interrogation and detention," among other functions. SERE psychologists were implicated in the construction of torture protocols at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Leaked! International Red Cross Report on CIA Torture
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Mark Danner has scooped the NY Times, the Washington Post and other papers by publishing in the current New York Review of Books an essay quoting long excerpts of a leaked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report on "high-value" prisoners held in CIA black site prisons.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
APA on the Road to Damascus?
This article describes the current state of the controversy within the American Psychological Association over the presence of psychologists at "war on terror" detainee centers, and their participation in interrogations that have been linked to detainee abuse and torture.
