Click Here to Read: Opening Comments of Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner to the American Psychological Association Board, July 2, 20115.

Click Here to Read:  Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Psychologists Who Greenlighted Torture By The Editorial Board of The New York Times on July 10, 2015.

Psychologists were paid to give the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture program a veneer of legitimacy. Here, a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2009.  CreditJohn Moore/Getty Images

Click Here To Read: Release to the public and to Congress, immediately upon its completion, the Hoffman report investigating APA complicity with the Bush administration’s torture program on the Change.org website.

Click Here to Read: Doonesbury Cartoon on APA Torture.

Click here to Read: American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says on this website.

Click Here to Read: Saying it Again: Psychologists May Never Participate in Torture on the American Psychology Association website.

Click Here to Read:  Two psychologists help run CIA interrogations by By Ken Dilanian on the Red Raiders website on December 11, 2014.

April 30, 2015
APA Public and Member Communications
Statement from APA in response to April 30, 2015 New York Times article

Members have contacted the APA Central Office expressing concerns about this morning’s New York Times article which recirculated allegations about APA support for the CIA’s torture program. We understand those concerns. APA senior governance and staff take the allegations of support for torture and the public misunderstanding they have created very seriously. Continue reading Statement from APA in response to April 30, 2015 New York Times article

Two years ago the American Psychological Association adopted its comprehensive “Policy Related to Psychologists’ Work in National Security Settings and Reaffirmation of the APA Position Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” The stated rationale for this consolidation of previous ethics policies was that it would eliminate confusion and uncertainty. In turn, this heightened clarity would presumably facilitate greater adherence to APA policies and more effective enforcement of ethical violations.
Continue reading The APA and Guantanamo: Actions, Not Words by Roy Eidelson and Dan Aalbers

Click Here to Read: Don’t Look There! Misdirection in Psychology’s Response To The Senate Torture Report by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on January 12, 2015.

Click Here to Read: A Catalog Of Psychologist Participation In Torture From The Senate Report by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on January 12, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Responds to APA Announcement of Independent Investigation on the Ethical Psychology website.