The article "Mental Health Professionals in the ‘Enhanced' Interrogation Room" on the cover of this issue provides an invaluable service. It documents psychologists' and physicians' involvement in enhanced interrogation programs.
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October 31, 2009
The Ethical Policies and Involvement in Enhanced Interrogations of US Psychologists After 9/11
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October 29, 2009
Mental Health Professionals in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Room
On Monday, August 24, 2009, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a "Top Secret," highly redacted May 7, 2004, report, Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001 - October 2003).1 The report's opening pages concede that the activity it divulges "diverges sharply from previous Agency policy and rules that go
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September 22, 2009
If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw
A man accused of a crime is brought into a police interrogation room and sits down at an empty table. There’s no polygraph equipment in sight, and the typical two-cop questioning team isn’t in the room either. Instead, one officer enters the room with a piece of paper and a pencil in his hands. He sets them in front of the suspect, steps back, and calmly says, “draw.”Tha
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