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

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/us-torture-doctors-could-face-charges-after-report-alleges-post-911-collusion/



Leading group of psychologists faces a reckoning following repeated denials that its members were complicit in Bush administration-era torture

US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 ‘collusion’
Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian
11 Jul 2015 at 08:03 ET

The largest association of psychologists in the United States is on the brink of a crisis, the Guardian has learned, after an independent review revealed that medical professionals lied and covered up their extensive involvement in post-9/11 torture. The revelation, puncturing years of denials, has already led to at least one leadership firing and creates the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.

For more than a decade, the American Psychological Association (APA) has maintained that a strict code of ethics prohibits its more than 130,000 members to aid in the torture of detainees while simultaneously permitting involvement in military and intelligence interrogations. The group has rejected media reporting on psychologists’ complicity in torture; suppressed internal dissent from anti-torture doctors; cleared members of wrongdoing; and portrayed itself as a consistent ally against abuse.

Now, a voluminous independent review conducted by a former assistant US attorney, David Hoffman, undermines the APA’s denials in full – and vindicates the dissenters.

Sources with knowledge of the report and its consequences, who requested anonymity to discuss the findings before public release, expected a wave of firings and resignations across the leadership of an organization that Hoffman finds used its extensive institutional links to the CIA and US military to facilitate abusive interrogations.

[peacebird]

1. They should face charges, and so should all the those above them in the chain of command

[HooptieWagon]

2. We have to face the unpleasant facts.

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Obama and the DoJ are quite aware of the violations of the Geneva Convention and crimes against humanity, and are covering it up. If Bishops are guilty of covering up pedi priests, then surely the same standard applies to the top levels of US Govt. We voted for Hope, Change, Transparency, and Accountability. President Obama has failed badly.

[newfie11]

3. You got that right!!!

I don't know my country anymore!

[cheyanne]

4. Were the AMA and medical doctors not involved in the torture?