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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Report: Bush's CIA Engaged In Brutal, Illegal Torture For No Reason [View all]Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)24. Thank you for posting, EarlG. Adding a link:
The APA Grapples with Its Torture Demons: Six Questions for Nathaniel Raymond
Nathaniel Raymond on CIA interrogation techniques.
By Scott Horton
One of the enduring questions surrounding the torture and black-sites program run by the CIA between early 2002 and the early fall of 2006 relates to the role played by psychologists and the bizarre conduct of their professional association, the American Psychological Association (APA). Drawing on a cache of secret email communications between key players in the torture program and senior officers of the APA, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter James Risen suggests in Pay Any Price, his new book, that the APA rushed to change its ethics rules to allow its members to participate in the torture program. A key role in these disclosures is played by Nathaniel Raymond, a war-crimes investigator who analyzed these furtive communications for the FBI and who now heads Harvards Signal Program on Human Security and Technology. I put six questions to Raymond about the new disclosures, what they tell us about the APA, and the adoption of torture techniques by the CIA.
1. One of the most far-reaching disclosures contained in James Risens new book has to do with a CIA contractor named Scott Gerwehr. Risen says that Gerwehr spoke with a human rights investigator who secured an archive of his emails relating to his work for the CIA on interrogations issues. Are you that person? How did you come to meet Gerwehr, and why did he confide in you?
Yes, I am the unnamed human rights investigator referenced in Risens book. In the fall of 2006, Dr. Brad Olson, a Chicago-based professor of psychology, met Scott Gerwehr at a conference, where they discussed the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
Brad referred Scott to me at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), where I worked on the Campaign Against Torture at the time. Scott and I spoke soon thereafter, on November 1, 2006. That phone call was the only substantive conversation we ever had
in full: http://harpers.org/blog/2014/10/the-apa-grapples-with-its-torture-demons-six-questions-for-nathaniel-raymond/
Nathaniel Raymond on CIA interrogation techniques.
By Scott Horton
One of the enduring questions surrounding the torture and black-sites program run by the CIA between early 2002 and the early fall of 2006 relates to the role played by psychologists and the bizarre conduct of their professional association, the American Psychological Association (APA). Drawing on a cache of secret email communications between key players in the torture program and senior officers of the APA, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter James Risen suggests in Pay Any Price, his new book, that the APA rushed to change its ethics rules to allow its members to participate in the torture program. A key role in these disclosures is played by Nathaniel Raymond, a war-crimes investigator who analyzed these furtive communications for the FBI and who now heads Harvards Signal Program on Human Security and Technology. I put six questions to Raymond about the new disclosures, what they tell us about the APA, and the adoption of torture techniques by the CIA.
1. One of the most far-reaching disclosures contained in James Risens new book has to do with a CIA contractor named Scott Gerwehr. Risen says that Gerwehr spoke with a human rights investigator who secured an archive of his emails relating to his work for the CIA on interrogations issues. Are you that person? How did you come to meet Gerwehr, and why did he confide in you?
Yes, I am the unnamed human rights investigator referenced in Risens book. In the fall of 2006, Dr. Brad Olson, a Chicago-based professor of psychology, met Scott Gerwehr at a conference, where they discussed the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
Brad referred Scott to me at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), where I worked on the Campaign Against Torture at the time. Scott and I spoke soon thereafter, on November 1, 2006. That phone call was the only substantive conversation we ever had
in full: http://harpers.org/blog/2014/10/the-apa-grapples-with-its-torture-demons-six-questions-for-nathaniel-raymond/
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Pic Of The Moment: Report: Bush's CIA Engaged In Brutal, Illegal Torture For No Reason [View all]
EarlG
Dec 2014
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Bottom Line ..... the torture did not work because why was bin Laden alive all those years later?
Botany
Dec 2014
#4
these pyschopaths do not regret anything - they don't feel anything for anyone outside their circle
samsingh
Dec 2014
#7
My friends and I once played dart game with pictures of Bush and Cheney on board....
TRoN33
Dec 2014
#17
It shows the lack of respect from top to bottom for human rights, for other humans.....
marble falls
Dec 2014
#35
Wow, the top CIA lawyer is on CNN destroying Chimpco and Feinstein
aint_no_life_nowhere
Dec 2014
#39
Andrea Mitchell on Rachel implies she's not happy b/c Holder hasn't charged anyone
wordpix
Dec 2014
#48
oh, there were any number of reasons: they are all sick, perverted thugs, greedy and
niyad
Dec 2014
#49
And the 5 assholes that gave him the WH on the SC would do it again...
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#51