Critically, in 2005, a prominent and highly controversial APA taskforce ruled that members could perform "consultative roles to interrogation- or information-gathering processes for national security-related purposes".
But it resulted in a report, adopted by the APA along with a rewritten set of ethical guidelines, that said it was "consistent with the APA Code of Ethics for psychologists to serve in consultative roles to interrogation- or information-gathering processes for national security-related purposes.
They could make inquiries about people the unit had detained for interrogation, share information about them and ask whether a particular detainee had anything to say on a particular subject.
The plan, officials said, was to do an initial interrogation for any information that might prevent a pending attack or identify the location of other Qaeda leaders.
The government still considers its interrogation techniques "classified information".
Mr. Schiffrin said that he had requested interrogation information from the senior officers who administered the pilots' program, based at Fort Belvoir, Va.
It is vital that we are able to use interrogation to uncover information about our terrorist enemies.
And after visiting CIA headquarters last week, the president made it clear that he rejected statements surely made by CIA officers who risked their careers to tell him how many successful covert operations against al-Qaeda have flowed from interrogation information.
Teams should be aware that there's only one option for ending the interrogation: t[ELL EN]ough information.
Drawn by her runaway imagination to investigate crimes that have become part of local legend, Emma uses sheer cunning and devious methods of interrogation to pry information from the colorful characters she finds at well-trafficked spots like the Rainbow Cafe.
Ignatieff's latest book, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, has provoked horror from other human rights philosophers as it advocates 'coercive interrogation' to obtain information from terrorists.
