American Psychological Association’s Resolution on Torture

August 22, 2007 in Psychology | 1 comment

I remember watching this video on water boarding
where they used news anchor Steve Harrigan for the subject. I’m releived that the psychology community has now taken the stance not to accept this type of unethical interrogation technique. Here is the full text of the APA’s Resolution.

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April 1, 2008 at 8:34 pm

hypermodern

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No wonder there’s problems internationally with the perception of water-boarding when memos go out that are loose on their definition of torture.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/01/torture.memo.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

As reported by CNN, “The memo concludes that foreign enemy combatants held overseas do not have defendants’ rights or protections from cruel and unusual punishment that U.S. citizens have under the Constitution. It also says that Congress ‘cannot interfere with the president’s exercise of his authority as commander in chief to control the conduct of operations during a war’.”