CIA used Psychological Warfare approach on its own people...
Jul 10, 2015 16:26:23 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 16:26:23 GMT -6
One can call this many things, and some would surely disagree with how I describe it above. However, psychological warfare is, in the end, about playing head games to lead another person into behavior or attitudes they wouldn't normally or ordinarily show. This fits that just about perfectly, IMO....
Worse yet? This was done against the American People as well as the CIA's own internal staff.
As most horror stories start, it sounds simple enough...by today's standards anyway. Maybe the Psych's were working in Good Faith? ... Or not.
Now that is one hell of a lot of WRONG to pack into one paragraph, I must say! Since WHEN were ethics policies worked around to remain in line to actions taken by intelligence officers??? Ethics, by definition, means NOTHING if it is adjusted to events. It becomes nothing but a cheap tool to cover misconduct to extremes.
Oh, I did mention the Psy-War tactics were turned directly against the American public..huh? Large allegations..indeed. It is a large example of unbelievably unethical conduct though, too.
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When people who operate in secrecy begin working outside the law, they become a law unto themselves by default.
That is the opposite of anything consistent with the survival of a free society, in my humble opinion.
Worse yet? This was done against the American People as well as the CIA's own internal staff.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program, according to a sweeping new report.
As most horror stories start, it sounds simple enough...by today's standards anyway. Maybe the Psych's were working in Good Faith? ... Or not.
The report concludes that some of the association’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to curry favor with Pentagon officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the interrogation policies of the Defense Department, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the C.I.A.’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing dissent inside the agency.
Now that is one hell of a lot of WRONG to pack into one paragraph, I must say! Since WHEN were ethics policies worked around to remain in line to actions taken by intelligence officers??? Ethics, by definition, means NOTHING if it is adjusted to events. It becomes nothing but a cheap tool to cover misconduct to extremes.
Oh, I did mention the Psy-War tactics were turned directly against the American public..huh? Large allegations..indeed. It is a large example of unbelievably unethical conduct though, too.
The association’s ethics director, Stephen Behnke, coordinated the group’s public policy statements on interrogations with a top military psychologist, the report said, and then received a Pentagon contract to help train interrogators while he was still working at the association, without the knowledge of the association’s board.
When people who operate in secrecy begin working outside the law, they become a law unto themselves by default.
That is the opposite of anything consistent with the survival of a free society, in my humble opinion.
