200 psychologists have written President-elect Obama protesting the possible nomination of John Brennan to be either the National Intelligence Director or CIA Director. Brennan is a twenty-five-year …
Back in the United States, the Pentagon has recently announced two new changes to its policies on interrogations. A newly reissued directive says behavioral science consultants can no longer be used …
The American Psychological Association has approved a landmark measure banning members from taking part in interrogations of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay. We speak to Dan Aalbers, member of the …
And members of the American Psychological Association have approved a landmark vote banning participation in what many call government-sanctioned torture. In the largest turnout for an APA vote to …
The debate over the role that psychologists should play in military interrogations heated up this weekend at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. After years of …
In the first US war crimes tribunal since World War II, a jury of six senior military officers has convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of two charges of material support for terrorism but …
We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American …
New information has been revealed about the role psychologists played in helping the CIA develop its torture techniques. In her new book The Dark Side, Jane Mayer reveals a former president of …
On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee held an eight-hour hearing that exposed the role of top Bush administration officials in authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques. …
The Senate investigation confirmed the Pentagon sought the help of military psychologists as early as 2002 to devise so-called aggressive interrogation techniques. Dr. Steven Reisner is a …