Valtin takes on Michael Gelles
April 11th, 2007
Valtin at Invictus adds his perspective to former Navy psychologist Michael Gelles’ defense of psychologist participation in national security interrogations, and of APA policy on the issue. He intersperses the Gelles letter with appropriate quotes from other sources on the development of the United States psychological torture paradigm in use at many US detention facilities.
His conclusion:
Gelles and his ilk condemn torture out of one side of their mouths, while spinning like crazy a story out of the other side that will hide the truth of what the U.S. is doing in Guantanamo and elsewhere.
Entry Filed under: APA, Guantanamo, Psychology, Rights and Liberties, Torture, War Crimes
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1. Jeffrey Kaye | April 11th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for notice of this. I was looking for some way to stylistically represent the gross hypocrisy involved in the arguments of Gelles and others at APA.
If only I had the genius of a Dos Passos!
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