Video: Health Professionals Involved Throughout CIA Interrogations
Psychologists’ work at CIA prisons denounced
Role in harsh treatment draws condemnation from medical ethicists
By Joby Warrick and Peter Finn
Fri., April 17, 2009
WASHINGTON – When the CIA began what it called an “increased pressure phase” with captured terrorist 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.
“No severe mental pain or suffering would have been inflicted,” a Justice Department lawyer said in a 2002 memo explaining why waterboarding, or simulated drowning, should not be considered torture.
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Psychologists, Psychiatrists and other health professionals hard at work. It’s beginning to look a lot like Nazi Germany again. Oh yeah that’s right, the ones who do experimentations on others, get moved to other countries under project like Project Paperclip. I wonder if they give the same information when it comes to electronic harassment? No go ahead use it, it’s not hurting them, it’s not torture. Just wondering.
Ofcourse everyone just does what they are told, because, they were just following orders, obedience to authority, but when that authority is corrupt, what then?
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Waterboarding was touted as particularly useful because it was “reported to be almost 100 percent effective in producing cooperation,” the memo said.
The agency then used a psychological assessment of Abu Zubaida to find his vulnerable points. One of them, it turns out, was a severe aversion to bugs.
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“He appears to have a fear of insects,” states the memo, which describes a plan to place a caterpillar or similar creature inside a tiny wooden crate in which Abu Zubaida was confined. CIA officials say the plan was never carried out.
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See pay attention to this, because this is what they do to us, they try to find out stuff about us, what we are afraid of, what annoys us, then if they think it’s working they try to incorporate it into their psychological programing.
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