US Psychologists Scrap Rule Barring Inhumane Interrogations

Associated Press:

The American Psychological Association's policy-making council voted against a proposal to ban psychologists from taking part in any interrogations at U.S. military prisons "in which detainees are deprived of adequate protection of their human rights."

Instead, the group approved a resolution that reaffirmed the association's opposition to torture and restricted members from taking part in interrogations that involved any of more than a dozen specific practices, including sleep deprivation and forced nakedness. Violators could be expelled and lose their state licenses to practice.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Comments

[1man1voicenovote]

08:33 AM on 08/20/2007

Why don't you sit down and play a nice game of solitaire?
The Cheney plan to pack the Iraqi government with Manchurian Candidates has morphed into the Republican's last best hope to maintain their hold on power here in America.

[KenoshaMarge]

06:13 AM on 08/20/2007

Physicians have scumbags amongst them just like any other segment of society. Somehow we expect more of them because "doctors" are held in such high esteem, damn near worship, by much of the public. They're human beings. Some good, some bad and some despicable. The American Psychological Association has shown that a voting majority of their membership have no integrity, decency or morality. Nothing new there.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

06:53 AM on 08/20/2007

the Hippocratic Oath of "do no harm" becomes "anything in the name of national security, no matter how cruel or irrational"

[foolme1ns]

07:37 AM on 08/20/2007

They've turned the Hippocratic oath into the hypocritic oath. "First, do no harm" becomes "oh sure, what the hell, do some harm". Who's going to know. Wasn't Mengele a psychologist?

[SaintN]

04:40 AM on 08/20/2007

The facts are: 1.Osamma Bin Laden and alQueda are "fictional" terrorists created by the CIA and the Pentagon expressly to aid in the Bush Regime's facsist "coup d'etat" of America.
No 2. There weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Iraq was no threat to America.
Conclusion: The American Psychological Association (and many others) willingly aided & abeted these torturers & murderers in abusing and killing prisoners,who were actually not terrorists but innocent victims of the Bush Regime's "Terrorism" charade!

[MfromS]

05:00 AM on 08/20/2007

The fact is: You are wrong.

Conclusion: You are an idiot.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

05:12 AM on 08/20/2007

I would say rather, that Bush-Cheney succumbed to the 9/11 coup faction.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/11/60II/main521718.shtml
Sept. 10, 2003
Mr. Bush says the first hours were frustrating. He watched the horrifying pictures, but the TV signal was breaking up. His calls to Cheney were cutting out. And he says he pounded his desk shouting, “This is inexcusable. Get me the vice president.”

“I was trying to clear the fog of war, and there is a fog of war," says the president. "Information was just flying from all directions.”

Card brought in the reports. There was word Camp David had been hit. A jet was thought to be targeting Mr. Bush’s ranch.

“I remember hearing that the State Department might have been hit, or that the White House had a fire in it," says Card. "So we were hearing lots of different information."

They also feared that Air Force One itself was a target. Cheney told the president there was a credible threat against the plane. Using the code name for Air Force One, Mr. Bush told an aide, “Angel is next.” The threat was passed to presidential pilot Col. Mark Tillman.

“It was serious before that but now it is - no longer is it a time to get the president home,” says Tillman. “We actually have to consider everything we say. Everything we do could be intercepted, and we have to make sure that no one knows what our position is.”
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they allowed themselves to be left holding the smoking gun (Cheney in the bunker, Cheney with the shotgun, they're fucking with the guy whose heart runs on a battery)

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P.S. the American Psychological Association knows which side of their bread is buttered. it's the same old tale of Washington God complex money power addiction and territorialism.

[Defyant]

04:13 AM on 08/20/2007

Verrrry interestink!

We have vays of making you talk.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

03:07 AM on 08/20/2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUBARK

The cryptonym KUBARK appears in the title of a 1963 CIA document KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation which describes interrogation techniques, including, among other things, "coercive counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources". The manual was one of two torture manuals declassified by the U.S. government in 1997.

[phineasTbluster]

02:56 AM on 08/20/2007

So the Psychologists are participating in order to keep people from dying?
I'm sure that's what the German Doctors said too.

[gcallaghan]

07:37 AM on 08/20/2007

The doctors' participation lends an unintentional and unwarranted air of legitimacy to the practice of torture. Authorities can claim in their own defense that the methods used were condoned by the medical establishment. Secrecy laws will prevent doctors from revealing what happens in the torture chambers, so why are the doctors there? To keep everybody honest? Bullshit. It's to cover the brass' asses in case of an investigation by the world court.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

02:45 AM on 08/20/2007

http://cryptome.org/padilla/padilla-695-6-2.jpg

sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain are the cornerstones of American Torture, perfected by psychologists over 60 years.

the purpose of torture is not to extract information. the purpose is to destroy human minds.

http://www.americantorture.com/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8394026536833890499

A Short History of Psychological Terror

Alfred McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, explores the history and use by the CIA of psychological torture in terms of how this particular form of torture was discovered, perfected and made legal.

[Ramirez]

02:13 AM on 08/20/2007

The HuffPo Headline:
"US Psychologists Scrap Rule Barring Inhumane Interrogations"

The actual AP headline:
"Psychologists Scrap Interrogation Ban"

[ghostsofamerica]

01:41 AM on 08/20/2007

What next? How low can America go?

This has been the worst thing to see, the demise of the American soul.

[seasalt]

04:07 AM on 08/20/2007

Would you please f*ck off?

The American soul is just fine.

Blaming the entire group for the ignorance and depravity of a few is the kind of thing that Nazis were fond of doing.

No one I care about has ever committed torture. I have a few older family members who voted for Bush; the rest of my friends and family (95%) have worked against the neocons for decades.

The over-generalization that the worst abuses by the neocons somehow "represents" everyone in America is grossly offensive, AND counterproductive.

[MelFamy]

06:55 AM on 08/20/2007

I wish that the rest of the world felt like you. But we are judged by our worst behavior and how we deal with it. Since the architects of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and "enhanced interrogation techniques" are still in power, then the nation as a whole is judged accordingly.

[foolme1ns]

07:30 AM on 08/20/2007

America can go as low as Germany went with the Nazi's. They didn't have a corner on the market of barbarism. They had their phsycologists too. It was the phsycologists who taught the Nazi's how to torture their victims.