[wvns] Psychologists taught Army abuse tactics

'PSYCHOLOGISTS WERE CENTRAL TO THE ABUSE'
Salon, 6/21/07
http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2007/06/21/open_letter/index_np.html

A letter from a group of psychologists to the American Psychological
Association charges psychologists with responsibility for abusive
interrogations.

Editor's note: On Wednesday, dozens of psychologists released an open
letter to American Psychological Association president Sharon Brehm,
expressing concern that psychologists may have played a central role
in the development of abusive interrogation tactics since 9/11.
Psychologists affiliated with the military's Survival, Evasion,
Resistance and Escape program are under particular scrutiny. That
program subjects elite U.S. soldiers to brutal mock interrogations to
teach resistance in case of capture by an enemy that does not abide by
the Geneva Conventions. Military psychologists helped reverse-engineer
that training to interrogate suspected terrorists. Increasing evidence
shows that the CIA employed SERE psychologists as contractors to do
the same. Screen shots of the text of the letter are contained on this
page and the following pages; the full letter, including the list of
signatories, is available for download here. (MORE)

http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2007/06/21/open_letter/index_np.html

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