"Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11 A new article in U.S. News & World Report quotes a couple of psychologists, one sociologist and one historian to argue that people who question the government's version of 9/11 are prone to false thinking.Initially, remember that, while there are many honorable psychologists and psychiatrists, psychologists helped to create the U.S. torture program, and actively participated in it.
Speaking of which:
"Psychologists' e-mails stir interrogation issue; Critics urge inquiry on ethics question" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration's controversial detention program have fueled a fierce debate over whether mental-health professionals should give advice on warfare, and whether the nation's largest psychology association tacitly blessed the government's use of abusive interrogations involving waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
And they are telling us we are deranged? Their cred was just shot!!!
The e-mails were part of internal deliberations of a 2005 American Psychological Association task force on ethics and national security that featured several military psychologists who served as advisers or trainers to interrogators in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. At issue in the e-mail deliberations was how to balance their profession's strict ethical code of "do no harm" with the military's attempt to coerce information on terrorist plots from suspects.
Related: U.S. Government Knows 9/11 Patsies Are Innocent
For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE and scroll down.
None of the e-mails, posted this week on the investigative journalism website ProPublica, advocate the use of torture.
AmeriKan newspapers didn't get it first?
In fact, several describe how psychologists stepped in to prevent abuse of detainees in places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Yeah, they are real heroes to step in like that.
See: Why Obama Is Blocking Torture Pics
But the e-mails - written by military psychologists who were consultants to interrogators questioning detainees at secret, so-called black sites overseas - have angered medical ethicists and human rights advocates.
Remember, we are a nation that engages in rendition and has secret black site prisons and floating dungeons based upon unholy and damnable lies regarding 9/11. Now that's sick in the head!
They say the APA should have barred psychologists from playing any role in the interrogations, and should not have invited psychologists working for the Pentagon to help shape the organization's ethics code....
Tell me when it h.... wow, that was fast!
The 10-member task force is, generally, a who's who list of military mental-health professionals who eventually came out in public as opponents of torture.
Any HUMAN BEING is! If not, you are a MONSTER!
One member, Army Colonel Larry James, was sent to Abu Ghraib to install guidelines after photos of detainee abuse made international headlines, while another, Morgan Banks, argued against using coercive tactics on Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a report by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Task force member Mike Gelles, a civilian with Guantanamo Bay's Criminal Investigation Task Force, criticized the brutal methods used in interrogations there, while colleague R. Scott Shumate, a CIA psychologist, reportedly left in disgust after he witnessed the treatment of Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah....
The e-mails show how the military psychologists struggled to find the ethical boundaries....
Seriously, how hard could that have been?
You KNOW TORTURE when you SEE IT!!!!
Bryce Lefever, a military psychologist who served at the detention center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, opined in one e-mail that psychologists do harm for the "greater good" when inflicting pain on US soldiers to teach them how to withstand torture at the hands of enemy captors. The same behaviors, however, "are viewed as harmful" when used on US prisoners....
This guy needs to be committed!
--more--"In fact, THROW the WHOLE LOT into GITMO and see how THEY LIKE the WATERBOARD!!!
