RE: When do the ends justify the means?
September 14, 2015 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 5:14 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
It's not hard to imagine a government agency being tempted to use torture when they are given a specific task and don't concern themselves with the bigger picture. It's why intelligence agencies are always trying to remove our civil liberties, because it makes their job easier. But the American Psychological Association should know better.
Torture, Psychology and the Real APA
Three senior officials lose their jobs at APA after US torture scandal
Thankfully:
No More Torture: World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Bans Role in National Security Interrogations
Torture, Psychology and the Real APA
Quote:I resigned in December 2007 after the August 2007 annual meeting effectively endorsed a professional role for psychologists in torture.
Let's go back to 2007. It was already apparent that psychologists had been actively involved in devising and implementing programs of interrogation that subjected people to various combinations of stress positions, nudity, hooding, isolation, slapping, shaking, dog threats, death threats, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, extreme heat or cold, intense light, relentless noise, exploitation of personal phobias, cultural and sexual humiliations, and the sheer terror of waterboarding.
Once psychologists used their knowledge of human behavior to understand, help, and heal. Now psychologists were using their expertise to destroy the fundamental psychological integrity of people held captive outside the criminal justice system.
Three senior officials lose their jobs at APA after US torture scandal
Quote:As the American Psychological Association copes with the damage reaped by an independent investigation that found it complicit in US torture, the group announced on Tuesday that its chief executive officer, its deputy CEO and its communications chief are no longer with the APA.
All three were implicated in the 542-page report issued this month by former federal prosecutor David Hoffman, who concluded that APA leaders “colluded” with the US department of defense and aided the CIA in loosening professional ethics and other guidelines to permit psychologist participation in torture.
Thankfully:
No More Torture: World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Bans Role in National Security Interrogations
