The allegations appeared in James Risen’s book:
NOVEMBER 2014 : (APA COMMISSIONS AN “INDEPENDENT REVIEW” AFTER RISEN’S ALLEGATIONS —— See BLEEDINGHEARTATTACK, GITMO, BOOK DEALS, FEINSTEIN, LEAHY, MCCAIN ) The APA commissioned an independent review by David Hoffman, a former federal prosecutor, in November 2014 after detailed allegations of complicity emerged in New York Times reporter James Risen’s book, “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.” The book documented secret coordination between APA and U.S. officials to support the spurious legal and ethical justification for the Bush administration’s torture program, which relied on health professional monitoring of abusive interrogations to claim that they were “safe, effective, and legal.”
Hoffman’s report, based on extensive interviews and review of internal emails and documents, found overwhelming evidence of criminal activity by APA staff and officials, including:
1) Colluding with the U.S. Department of Defense, the CIA, and other elements of the Bush administration to enable psychologists to design, implement, and defend the post-9/11 torture program;
2) Allowing military and intelligence personnel to write APA ethics policies regulating their own conduct to ensure they were “covered” for their roles in the torture program;
3) Engaging in a coordinated campaign to cover up the collusion and blocking attempts to oppose these policies within the APA; and
4) Obstructing and manipulating ethics investigations into psychologists involved in the torture program.
-——————For Immediate Release
Friday, July 10, 2015
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Physicians for Human Rights
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