APA Task Force Members Worked At US Military Prisons



http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1440238

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APA Task Force Members Worked At US Military Prisons

This news on a story we’ve been following: There are new developments
in the growing internal battle over the American Psychological
Association’s support for the participation of psychologists in
military interrogations. Salon.com is reporting is reporting six of
the ten people on the APA task force that drafted the psychologists'
policy have close military ties. Four of the six worked at Guantanamo,
Abu Ghraib or Afghanistan. Dissident APA members say those task force
members have a significant conflict of interest. The news comes as APA
members prepare to discuss the issue at a conference next month. More
than 1300 members and outside psychologists have signed an online
petition denouncing the APA’s current stance.

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