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American Psychological Assoc. Bans Participation in Torture Programs [picture]

Monday, August 10, 2015 12:37
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The board of the American Psychological Association has voted nearly unanimously to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national by Crossbrowse”>SECURITY interrogations. The new rules come after an independent investigation documented how the APA leadership by Crossbrowse”>ACTIVELY colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA torture by Crossbrowse”>PROGRAMS. We’ll have more on the vote later in the broadcast. viatwitter

The largest association of psychologists in the United States voted by Crossbrowse”>TO BEGINreversing its policy of collusion in torture on Friday by prohibiting members of the American Psychological Association from participating in the interrogation of US prisoners on foreign soil.

US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 ‘collusion’

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In the wake of a devastating internal report that undermined more than a decade of denial from medical professionals of their complicity in post-9/11 interrogations, the APA’s 173-member council of representatives consented almost unanimously to ban its thousands of psychologists from being involved in Bush-era tactics of torture as well as present-day non-coercive techniques.  source

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