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The US top psychology association colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA to devise ethical guidelines to support post-Sept. 11, 2001, interrogation techniques that have since been labeled as torture, a report said on Friday.
Some members of the American Psychological Association (APA), including senior staff, sought to curry favor with defense officials, a 542-page probe commissioned by APAs board found.
These individuals issued an ethics policy that aligned with government interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
The association colluded with several government agencies, including the Pentagon and the CIA, to devise ethical guidelines for the interrogation program under former US president George W. Bush, the review found.
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(50,414 posts)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.