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on Doctors, Detainees and the Torture Controversy
An Intelligence Officer’s View of Interrogation Doctors, Part I
What is the command structure in top secret detention centers and where are interrogation doctors in the chain of command? What happens when a doctor refuses to assist detainee interrogations? What conditions will lead to an increase in interrogation doctors? David DeBatto, a retired Army Counterintelligence officer with experience in Iraq, discusses the uneven justice for those involved in torture.
10:31 minutes. From an interview by Martha Davis in New York City, April 2008
An Intelligence Officer’s View of Interrogation Doctors, Part II
A continuation of the discussion on command structure in top secret detention centers and the PMI, Psychologist and Military Intelligence, case book study.
David DeBatto, retired Army Counterintelligence officer.
4:23 minutes. From an interview by Martha Davis in New York City, April, 2008
Unintended Consequences
Martha Davis, writer and director of the documentary “Interrogation Psychologists,” critiques the comparison of military interrogation psychologists to forensic psychologists in the U.S. and discusses how this new role for psychologists threatens the profession.
For more on Martha Davis see Crew
10:42 minutes. From a speech at the Psychology Society Conference of the New School, New York City, April 12, 2008.
The Stuff of Life (If you cannot view the video here, go HERE)
A film from Amnesty International:
The Stuff of Life “exposes the reality of the waterboarding torture technique. The CIA uses waterboarding to try to extract information from detainees in the 'war on terror'. President George Bush thinks it is a 'necessary tool'. We think it's torture.”
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1:32 minutes
Waiting For The Guards (If you cannot view the video here, go HERE)
A film from Amnesty International:
Waiting for the Guards “shows a performance artist undergoing, for real, interrogation techniques permitted in the CIA handbook. The Directors approached the making of the film in a way that has never been done before, choosing to show the reality of Stress Positions in as authentic a way as possible.
They filmed a person who was put in Stress Positions for over a 6 hour period. There is
no acting on the part of the “prisoner” – his pain and anguish are real.
This powerful film shows without a doubt that what the US administrations say is interrogation is really torture, and must be stopped.”
2:28 minutes
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From Physicians for Human Rights (If you cannot view the video here, go HERE)
PHR is renewing its call to Congress and the White House to immediately create a non-partisan commission to investigate the Bush Administration’s use of torture, with a specific focus on the role that psychologists and medical professionals played in its design, justification, supervision, and use.
"Now is the time for those who violated our laws and our values to be held to account."
Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture
2:19 minutes www.PhysiciansforHumanRights.org
Psychology and the Military, Part I: WWII and the Post-war Era
Frank Summers is a psychologist and psychoanalyst affiliated with Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago. This is his presentation to the conference on The Interrogation and Torture Controversy: Crisis in Psychology sponsored by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Center on Terrorism, September 12, 2008. In Part I, Dr. Summers documents how the U.S. military needs of WWII spawned modern American psychology and entire branches of psychology research and practice. During this period the contributions of psychologists ranged from very well-regarded work in national defense to research that was used by the CIA to develop coercive interrogation methods. He draws a vivid picture of the explosion in research dollars, the emergence of clinical psychology, and the deep connections established between the military, the intelligence services, and American psychology.
16:40 minutes Our thanks to John Jay's Audio Visual Services for the original video.
