Yes, America's Psychologists Abetted Torture Interrogations (Adam Zagorin 8-7-15 Project On Govern-

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ment Oversight/POGO)

"But where's the oversight of their contracts with the Pentagon and CIA and of their conflicts of interest?"
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2015/08/yes-americas-psychologists-abetted-torture-interrogations.html

And, fwiw, below is a news release from yesterday sent from the American Psychological Association's Board convention in Toronto

APA's Council Bans Psychologist Participation in National Security Interrogations
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/08/psychologist-interrogations.aspx

There is a lot more to all this, some of which was discussed in the LBN Forum-let's continue to expand on this topic here in Good Reads.

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Thanks for the link, bobthedrummer: http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/08/psychologist-interrogations.aspx

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2. No More Torture: World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Bans Role in National Security Interrogation

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/10/no_more_torture_world_s_largest

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015

No More Torture: World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Bans Role in National Security Interrogations

By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives voted Friday to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution also puts the APA on the side of international law by barring psychologists from working at Guantánamo, CIA black sites and other settings deemed illegal under the Geneva Conventions or the U.N. Convention Against Torture, unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. The vote came at the APA’s first convention since the release of a report confirming the APA leadership actively colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA torture programs. The sole dissenter was retired Col. Larry James, former top Army intelligence psychologist at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. We play highlights from the vote, including APA President-elect Susan McDaniel, and speak with two of the leading dissident psychologists who have been pushing the APA to reverse its stance on interrogations for nearly a decade, Steven Reisner and Stephen Soldz, founding members of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology. We also speak with the president-elect of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman.

GUESTS:

Steven Reisner, founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology and psychological ethics adviser to Physicians for Human Rights. He’s the co-author of the report, "All the President’s Psychologists."

Stephen Soldz, professor at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and co-founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology.

Peter Kinderman, president-elect of the British Psychological Society.

TRANSCRIPT: Available at link.

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3. PRISONER ABUSE: Patterns From The Past (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 122

updated February 25, 2014)
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122

You can equally use other terms instead of "PRISONER" such as client, patient, suspect, subject-and get away with literally murder right here in The United States of America behind that evil shield of "National Security", right?

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4. Hey APA-why didn't you accept what many were stating years ago about the history of your profession?

Here's a version of a paper submitted in the fall of 2005 by a student and activist taking a course in National Security Law (she later earned a JD)

Human Research Subject Protections for National Security Experiments (Cheryl Welsh 2005 Mind Justice)
http://mindjustice.org/humprot2-06.htm

Why has the denial of the crimes committed behind the "national security" of The United States of America continued?

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5. Responding to Persons with Mental Illness: Can Screening Checklists Aid Law Enforcement? (Christian

Mason, Tod W. Burke, PhD and Stephen S. Owen, PhD 2-4-14 FBI)
https://leb.fbi.gov/2014/february/responding-to-persons-with-mental-illness-can-screening-checklists-aid-law-enforcement

I believe it's more like "life unworthy of life" as policy in a lot of America, which has been supported by both APA's elite.

We can't ask Sandra Bland, nor Tanisha Anderson, nor Kajieme Powell, nor Christopher Torres nor many others who are dead as a result of "responses" to them.

Then, to add that diabolical twist-some mental-health professionals will provide special therapy to the traumatized officers and their social network-when, in fact, some of these officers are murderers.

I'd love to hear from those DUers that disagree with my viewpoint.

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7. Last month former FBI Director Louis Freeh endorsed APA torturers and slammed the independent report

Psychologist accused of enabling US torture backed by former FBI chief (Spencer Ackerman 7-12-15 Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jul/12/apa-torture-report-louis-freeh-stephen-behnke

Our DoJ should be renamed The Ministry of Truth because all this "We Don't Torture" or "Well, we tortured some folks..." bs is totally post-Bush NEWSPEAK that the Obama administration's DoJ never really did anything about except going after the whistle blowers that expected some movement towards JUSTICE.

The Ministry of Truth employs lots of therapists too, doesn't it?

What do we, the people expect from an outfit that is headquartered in a building named after John Edgar Hoover who actually got a lot of US killed/harmed because of our being on secret "lists" that have grown exponentially?

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9. What We Don't Know About Policing, Race And Mental Illness (Kelly Davis 8-25-15 The Intercept)

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/25/what-we-dont-know-policing-race-mental-illness

Life unworthy of life-American Style?

What are your views, DUers?

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6. Various professional criticisms of the other APA/American Psychiatric Association (en cognitive.com)

American Psychiatric Association
http://www.encognitive.com/node/1215

CIA Torture (Constantine Report on the Far Right)
http://www.constantinereport.com/topic/torture

Paradoxically, I've been a staffer with the keys to locked wards and a court committed client that refuses to be silent about a federally
protected network (for 46 years) involving a murderer, rapist, torturer and human trafficker that harmed loved ones. My late father-in-law was connected to The Agency.

Moreover, some of the best and brightest " national security assets" spent time on the campuses of the University of Wisconsin and gathered very interesting non-consensual human subjects for many domestic operations-all based on politicized "lists" that remain in effect forever.

That's why I post about these once "out there" topics and will continue to do so. There are real criminal conspiracies as well as disinfo/CT.

I'm a conspiracy realist. Add to this thread DU.

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8. A kick as the blowback expands-add to this thread. n/t

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10. APA Torture & Ethics Scandal Highlights Fact No Medical Professionals Have Been Held to Account for

Torture (psychologist Valtin 8-25-15 Invictus)
http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/apa-torture-ethics-scandal-highlights.html#.VeSwivmrEZg

And a psychology consumer advocate article from Forbes (Todd Essig 8-5-15 Forbes)

Can You Still Trust Psychology After The Torture Scandal?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2015/08/05/can-you-still-trust-psychology-after-the-torture-scandal

So, in the jargon of therapeutic "language"-how do you FEEL about that torture, DU?

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11. Obama's Message on CIA Torture Report: Move On (Steven Dennis 12-9-14 Roll Call)

http://blogs.rollcall.com/white-house/obama-detached-on-torture

Well, well, well...

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12. Here's a link to the CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room-try entering some of your own APA torture

related words into the site's search engine
http://www.foia.cia.gov

It's amazing what technology and criminals hiding behind national security can do, isn't it?

It wasn't just The Agency of course, no, no, no...

How many clients will kill themselves today, oh great therapeutic professionals?

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13. On this Patriot's Day 2015 here's a Ray McGovern post from January 2013-for Jose Rodriguez

Excusing Torture, Again (ConsortiumNews)
https://consortiumnews.com/2013/01/07/excusing-torture-again

Why don't we celebrate a Torturer's Day too?

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14. The CIA's Coming Watergate (John Prados June 28, 2015)

http://johnprados.com/2015/06/28/the-cias-coming-watergate

"Well, we tortured some folks..."

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15. There is no Day of Atonement for US Behavioral Science Consultation Teams/BSCT's (biscuits)imo,none.

They are "scientific" torturers that have applied their "methods" on human beings whose names have been put on secretive "lists", sound familiar, people???

The unaccountability of the BUSH/CHENEY/RUMSFELD et.al. administration and the continuation of many of the "policies" initiated in the "war on terror" by the OBAMA administration is well known.

Yet what do we, the people, know about some of the originators of the BSCT's-Major John Leso, Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, Asst. SecDef for Health Matters William Winkenwerder Jr, Gen Sanchez, Gen. Fast, the American Psychological Association, etc.?

If you want to learn a bit more on this Day of Atonement about some of the crimes secretly committed in our name take a look at these links and then openly state your opinion if there is any excuse left for these scientific torturers outside of Divine Mercy-which many of their victims begged for.

The 107th Congress "acted" in our name pioneering BSCT's and sponsoring war criminals
Nominations Before The Senate Armed Services Committee, First Session, 107th Congress
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-107shrg75903/html/CHRG-107shrg75903.htm

Behavioral Science Consultation Team (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_Science_Consultation_Team

A Lesson for World Psychology: Denunciation and Accommodation of Abusive Interrogations by the American Psychological Association (Jean Maria Arrigo, PhD and Jancis Long, PhD Psychologists for Social Responsibility Vol.2, Issue5 pdf)
http://www.psysr.org/materials/Arrigo_Long_IRCT.pdf

United States Military Medicine in War on Terror Prisons (University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/OathBetrayed/interrogation-index.html

Collective Unconscionable: How psychologists, the most liberal of professionals, abetted Bush's torture policy (Arthur Levine July 2007 Washington Monthly)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0701.levine.html

The Experiment (Jane Mayer 7-11-05 New Yorker)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/07/11/the-experiment-3

The continued use, experimentation and abuse of our troops and their families continues, often carried out by BSCT "leaders"-with tragic results.

Potent Mixture: Zoloft And A Rifle (Lisa Chedekel And Matthew Kauffman 5-15-06 Hartford Courant)
http://www.courant.com/news/specialreports/hc-unfitzoloft0516.artmay16-story.html

Former Guantanamo Psychiatrist Promotes Dubious Drug Theory on Afghan Killings (Jeffrey Kaye 4-20-12 TruthOut)
http://www.truthout.org/news/item/8624-former-guantanamo-psychiatrist-promotes-dubious-theory-on-afghan-killings

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16. Be advised, people-there are new security policies in place at the torture sites run by the military

Department of Defense Special Access Program (SAP) Security Manual: Physical Security (Incorporating Change 1, Effective September 21, 2015 (DoD pdf via Cryptome)
https://cryptome.org/dodi/2015/dodm-5205-07-vol03.pdf

What about the domestic torturers hiding in the "mental health" profession-what is their "physical security" like, hopefully, it's a soft target

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17. We don't torture, freedom is on the march, stuff happens in war, find, fix, and finish the "enemies"

and on and on and on...Below is another example of where all this information warfare from the "leadership" of "national security" has taken we, the people against our will by denial of accountability and any movement towards JUSTICE.

Afghan hospital bombing:panel ready to begin US war crimes investigation (Spencer Ackerman 10-14-15 Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/afghan-hospital-bombing-inquiry-doctors-without-borders

Since when is accountability enough to get a citizen on a "list" of any type compiled by murderers and torturers in the US national security community? How many more of our veterans will kill themselves today???

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18. K for visibility and participation

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19. Open The Government.org Challenges Ongoing Classification of the CIA Torture Program (9-17-2015)

http://www.openthegovernment.org/node/4994

How many veterans will kill themselves today?

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20. Psychologists Accused of "Criminal Enterprise" with CIA Over Torture (Marisa Taylor&Jonathan S. Lan-

day October 28, 2015 McClatchy)
"Suit is first to rely on Senate's $40 million investigation of the CIA's program"
http://www.constantinereport.com/psychologists-accused-criminal-enterprise-cia-torture

LBN again...what do you think DUers-when it comes to the unindicted war criminals running crimes in our name and criminally hiding them in the shield of "national security"? I'm for the death penalty for some of them, as the law and our Constitution provides for.