Amerikanska psykologer medverkar vid tortyr.

Washington Post meddelar att psykologer och annan vårdpersonal deltagit i planeringen av tortyr. Många argumenterade att dessa yrkesgruppers deltagande skulle skydda mot oetisk behandling av fångar, i stället verkar de ha använts för att rättfärdiga användandet av tortyr och varit centrala i förhörsversamheten. De nämner här bland annat fallet Abu Zubaida:

"When the CIA began what it called an "increased pressure phase" with captured terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida in the summer of 2002, its first step was to limit the detainee's human contact to just two people. One was the CIA interrogator, the other a psychologist.

During the extraordinary weeks that followed, it was the psychologist who apparently played the more critical role. According to newly released Justice Department documents, the psychologist provided ideas, practical advice and even legal justification for interrogation methods that would break Abu Zubaida, physically and mentally. Extreme sleep deprivation, waterboarding, the use of insects to provoke fear -- all were deemed acceptable, in part because the psychologist said so."

I september -08 beslutade American Psychological Association att deras medlemmar inte får delta i militära förhör. Dock är skadan redan skedd och frågan är i vilken utsträckning detta fortfarande pågår. Jag håller med i följande citat: "The health professionals involved in the CIA program broke the law and shame the bedrock ethical traditions of medicine and psychology," said Frank Donaghue, chief executive of Physicians for Human Rights, an international advocacy group made up of physicians opposed to torture. "All psychologists and physicians found to be involved in the torture of detainees must lose their license and never be allowed to practice again."