US psychologists group could ban involvement in CIA interrogations
A shocking revelation last month about American psychologists' collaboration with the administration of US President George W. Bush in torture of terror suspects continues to stir controversy.
The American Psychological Association (APA) announced that it might vote to ban psychologists from participating in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s interrogation program, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The APA said the issue could be put to a vote as early as next week, during its annual meeting in Toronto.
The study conducted by a former US attorney, published by the New York Times on July 10, stated that a large number of American psychologists could be charged over their involvement in the CIA torture program after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The report, completed earlier last month, concludes that some of the APA’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to gain favor with US military officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the Pentagon’s interrogation policies, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the CIA’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing opposition inside the agency.
The CIA and the Pentagon both conducted harsh and torturous interrogations during the Bush administration, although the spy agency’s program included more brutal tactics.
The revelation, exposing years of false claims, has already led to at least one APA leadership firing and has created the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.
The APA has already condemned the psychologists' involvement in upgrading the interrogation techniques used by the CIA and the Pentagon most of which amounted to torture.
The controversial revelation came after Democrats on the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a damning report in December, detailing brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA on terror suspects.
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