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“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a “Faustian bargain.” In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association’s collective silence, ethical “numbing,” and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that “the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil”; in defense of this argument, he cites the Cold War “role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation.” 4”

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Book:Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

“Despite CIA rhetoric that gave Phoenix a sanitized, technical patina, the program soon devolved into an exercise in brutality that produced many casualties and few veriﬁable results.”

Vietnam Cia Vietnam War Phoenix Program

Book:Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

“Only a year after ratifying the UN Convention against Torture, Clinton thus violated one of its key clauses, indicating that Washington would continue to favor covert operations over compliance with international law.”

Clinton Torture Cia

Book:Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

“Writing to the Washington Post in 2007, two top U.S. generals drew upon their years of command experience to warn of such a slippery slope. “As has happened with every other nation that has tried to engage in a little bit of torture,” the generals wrote, “the abuse spread like wildfire, and every captured prisoner became the key to defusing a potential ticking time bomb. Our soldiers in Iraq confront real ‘ticking time bomb’ situations every day, in the form of improvised explosive devices, and any degree of ‘flexibility’ about torture at the top drops down the chain of command like a stone—the rare exception fast becoming the rule.”

Torture War On Terror Abu Ghraib

Book:Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation