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Shrinks Fault CIA Torture Tactics

Professional group to condemn interrogation techniques

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(Newser) – The American Psychological Association, long chummy with the CIA, is set to condemn tactics the spy agency has been using to interrogate terror detainees, writes Salon. Members have in the past worked with the CIA to design techniques: now the group wants to distance itself by formally opposing a long list of tactics they consider torture at the organization's yearly convention this weekend.

Tactics they oppose include water-boarding, sleep-deprivation and exploitation of phobias. Some members want the organization to go further and issue a moratorium on the use of psychologists in all interrogations, believing "the whole integrity of the profession" at risk. Last year Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which seems to ban prisoner abuse but contains several loopholes allowing the infliction of mental pain.

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The current Military Commissions Building at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Dec. 4, 2006. Brought to Guantanamo over five years ago, Australian detainee David Hicks attended a hearing here Monday, March 26, the first suspect to face prosecution under revised military tribunals established after the U.S. Supreme...
The current Military Commissions Building at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Dec. 4, 2006. Brought to Guantanamo over five years ago, Australian detainee David Hicks attended a hearing here Monday,...   (Associated Press)
A demonstration of waterboarding, one of the most strenuous tactics used in American interrogations.
A demonstration of waterboarding, one of the most strenuous tactics used in American interrogations.   (ABC News)
Guantanamo guards are pictured on duty inside Camp 5 maximum security facility, made up of single-occupancy cells, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, May 15, 2007. The Guantanamo detention camps are being transformed into a more tightly controlled prison for a core group of alleged terrorists while many marginal...
Guantanamo guards are pictured on duty inside Camp 5 maximum security facility, made up of single-occupancy cells, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, May 15, 2007. The Guantanamo detention camps are...   (Associated Press)
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