A new report states that psychologists in conjunction with the American Psychological Association were just as guilty as CIA torturers by choosing to bend their rules to shield their torturous ways.
Pure Evil
July 10, 2015

Doctors have a duty, combined with sworn oath to do no harm to their patients. Psychologists also have their own Ethics Code that they adhere to as well:

Principle A: Beneficence and Nonmaleficence

Psychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work and take care to do no harm. In their professional actions, psychologists seek to safeguard the welfare and rights of those with whom they interact professionally and other affected persons and the welfare of animal subjects of research. When conflicts occur among psychologists' obligations or concerns, they attempt to resolve these conflicts in a responsible fashion that avoids or minimizes harm. Because psychologists' scientific and professional judgments and actions may affect the lives of others, they are alert to and guard against personal, financial, social, organizational or political factors that might lead to misuse of their influence. Psychologists strive to be aware of the possible effect of their own physical and mental health on their ability to help those with whom they work.

A new 542 report just came out that says psychologists of the do no harm vocation, did as much harm as possible to human beings by siding with the CIA and shielding their torturous ways. I guess the American Psychological Association never bothered to read their own Ethics Codes. This is pure evil perpetrated by men who were more interested in profits and power than living up to their most basic ideals. They should all burn in hell.

It's horrifying. Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program

The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program, according to a sweeping new report.

The 542-page report, which examines the involvement of the nation’s psychologists and their largest professional organization, the American Psychological Association, with the harsh interrogation programs of the Bush era, raises repeated questions about the collaboration between psychologists and officials at both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
The report concludes that some of the association’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to curry favor with Pentagon officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the interrogation policies of the Defense Department, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the C.I.A.’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing dissent inside the agency.

The association’s ethics office, the report found, “prioritized the protection of psychologists — even those who might have engaged in unethical behavior — above the protection of the public.”Two former presidents of the psychological association were members of a C.I.A. advisory committee, the report found. One of them provided the agency with an opinion that sleep deprivation did not constitute torture, and later held a small ownership stake in a consulting company founded by two men who oversaw the agency’s interrogation program, it said....read on

Read the entire piece to get a full account of what the report states. These people should all be rounded up, licences stripped and prison sentences handed out.

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