Evidence that the US used psychologists in torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees emerged yesterday in a declassified Department of Defence (DoD) report entitled Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse. The report was published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). "In this report is conclusive evidence from the oversight division of the DoD confirming that psychologists played a central role in the development of the regime of psychological torture used at the US detention facilities at Guantánamo and in Iraq and Afghanistan".
The OIG report confirms previous media reports "that the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) program had been "reverse-engineered" to develop the harsh interrogation techniques used in our country's detention facilities housing terrorist suspects".
When these media reports claimed that psychologists had a hand in formulating the torture techniques used, the "leadership of the American Psychological Association (APA) ignored or disparaged them; in each case reiterating the APA policy statement, that "psychologists have a critical role in keeping interrogations safe, legal, ethical and effective".
The same methods used by the US to torture detainees in the war against terror have previously been "described as torture by the United States government in State Department human rights reports for decades".
UPDATE: Dizzy Thinks that torture is amusing and is upset that I do not appreciate his sense of humour.
This horror is what Dizzy Thinks finds amusing.
JHL you win Dizzy loses again. He is not a respectable blogger and his response to your fair criticism proves that.
ReplyDeleteWhy not ask him if he thinks getting a broom stick up his arse is funny? Torture is no laughing matter.
Dizzy Thinks? Dizzy has a reflex action if the Left and Liberals are for or against it then as right winger I must take an oppositional stance. Its quite childish.
I have read the comments thread and Dizzy's lack of self awareness is staggering. It is also quite amusing.
ReplyDeletezinzin: You would think with a blog name like Dizzy Thinks, that the author of the blog would at least put his brain into gear before posting. There appears to be no co-ordination between his fingertips and brain. They run Thinking Skills courses in prison. Perhaps, he should enroll on one of them?
ReplyDelete"Second, the display of intellectual vacuousness is even funnier given your self-rpclaimed virtual genius."
ReplyDeleteThis fom a man of opinionated arrogance. Couldn't make it up.
Put him on an Irony awareness course. Put Mr Dale's name down as well.