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By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution puts the APA on the side of...

By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution 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’re working directly for detainees or independent third parties defending human rights. Tune in to Democracy Now! for our special report from the APA’s annual meeting.

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“Right now, there are psychologists at Guantánamo Bay, and they’re not only doing therapy.”

- Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, speaking last night at a town hall meeting, where the American Psychological Association is holding its annual convention. Watch today’s Democracy Now! special report.

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One can praise the Obama administration for ending torture, but one must criticize the administration for blocking any examination or confrontation of our role in torture.
Robert Jay Lifton, leading American psychiatrist famous for his study of the doctors who aided Nazi war crimes. In his interview on Democracy Now! today, he critiques the role of the American Psychological Association in aiding government-sanctioned torture under President George W. Bush. Watch at democracynow.org.
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They are doing special things to special people in special places.
Kirk Hubbard, a senior CIA official, referring to the torture overseen by the agency’s psychologists. Learn more about how the American Psychological Association assisted the CIA’s torture program at democracynow.org.
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The psychologists are critical, but they’re critical because psychological torture is, in effect, enshrined within U.S. law.
Alfred McCoy, historian and author of “Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation.” Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today discussing the Senate torture report.
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