Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds/NYT
The torturers, their bosses, and the enablers should be in prison.
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WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agencys health professionals repeatedly criticized the agencys post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program, according to a new report.
The 542-page report, which examines the involvement of the nations psychologists and their largest professional organization, the American Psychological Association, with the harsh interrogation programs of the Bush era, raises repeated questions about the collaboration between psychologists and officials at both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
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The report, completed this month, concludes that some of the associations top officials, including its ethics director, sought to curry favor with Pentagon officials by seeking to keep the associations ethics policies in line with the Defense Departments interrogation policies, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the C.I.A.s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing dissent inside the agency.