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CounterPunch
January 5, 2016
The failure of the PENS Report to definitively ban psychologist participation in abusive national security interrogations allowed psychologists to be involved .... Ample documentation of CIA interrogation abuses by psychologists, which were known to military PENS members and which continued after PENS,ÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
July 13, 2015
Most recently, we were the psychologist coauthors of the report All the President's Psychologists: The American Psychological Association's Secret Complicity with the White House and US Intelligence Community in Support of the CIA's “Enhanced” Interrogation Program, which was featured in a May 1,ÃÂ ...
The Public Record (blog)
May 3, 2015
The narrative — as constructed by report authors, psychologists Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner, and Nathaniel Raymond, Director of Harvard's Signal .... It includes two members of the PENS board, NCIS's Mike Gelles and CIA's Scott Shumate, as well as the former Chief of the “Interrogation ControlÃÂ ...
Business Insider
April 30, 2015
Shortly thereafter, Stephen Behnke, Director of the APA Ethics Office, requested a meeting with top national security psychologists from the CIA to discuss the ... Task Force members (Scott Shumate among them)," Mumford continued, referring to the CIA's then-Chief Operational Psychologist Scott Shumate.
The Public Record (blog)
December 16, 2013
What hasn't been reported previously was that Seligman also allegedly met with Mitchell literally days before Mitchell and another CIA psychologist, Kirk ... Bloche wrote that Hubbard's work at the CIA brought him into contact with “an informal network of military and civilian psychologists and psychiatristsÃÂ ...
The Public Record
August 25, 2011
While it's shocking that APA would call upon psychologists to weigh an interrogation technique's “effectiveness” with other ethical standards, it's even .... sleep deprivation and more, led then chief operational psychologist for the C.I.A.'s counterterrorism center, R. Scott Shumate to leave the interrogation “inÃÂ ...
Boston Globe
May 7, 2009
Task force member Mike Gelles, a civilian with Guantanamo Bay's Criminal Investigation Task Force, criticized the brutal methods used in interrogations there, while colleague R. Scott Shumate, a CIA psychologist, reportedly left in disgust after he witnessed the treatment of Al Qaeda operative AbuÃÂ ...
Democracy Now
December 10, 2007
Two individuals involved in the interrogation of Al Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah have been identified by name – both are psychologists. Earlier this year Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban reported on Democracy Now! that CIA-contracted psychologist James Elmer Mitchell and Dr. R. Scott Shumate, the chiefÃÂ ...
Truthdig
June 5, 2007
Also included was R. Scott Shumate, who was the chief operational psychologist for the CIA's counterterrorism center until 2003. He then became head of the Pentagon Counterintelligence Field Activity's Behavioral Sciences directorate, overseeing psychologist participation in the interrogation process atÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
January 5, 2016
The failure of the PENS Report to definitively ban psychologist participation in abusive national security interrogations allowed psychologists to be involved .... Ample documentation of CIA interrogation abuses by psychologists, which were known to military PENS members and which continued after PENS, ...
CounterPunch
July 13, 2015
Most recently, we were the psychologist coauthors of the report All the President's Psychologists: The American Psychological Association's Secret Complicity with the White House and US Intelligence Community in Support of the CIA's “Enhanced” Interrogation Program, which was featured in a May 1, ...
The Public Record (blog)
May 3, 2015
Debra Dunivin, a member of the Guantanamo Behavioral Science Consultation Team (BSCT) — the very form of psychologist involvement that was a primary ... It includes two members of the PENS board, NCIS's Mike Gelles and CIA's Scott Shumate, as well as the former Chief of the “Interrogation Control ...
Business Insider
April 30, 2015
Basically, the task force recommended that a psychologist oversee harsh interrogations and determine what could be considered 'cruel, inhuman, and ... Shortly thereafter, Stephen Behnke, Director of the APA Ethics Office, requested a meeting with top national security psychologists from the CIA to discuss ...
The Public Record (blog)
December 16, 2013
What hasn't been reported previously was that Seligman also allegedly met with Mitchell literally days before Mitchell and another CIA psychologist, Kirk ... Bloche wrote that Hubbard's work at the CIA brought him into contact with “an informal network of military and civilian psychologists and psychiatrists ...
The Public Record
August 25, 2011
While it's shocking that APA would call upon psychologists to weigh an interrogation technique's “effectiveness” with other ethical standards, it's even .... sleep deprivation and more, led then chief operational psychologist for the C.I.A.'s counterterrorism center, R. Scott Shumate to leave the interrogation “in ...
Boston Globe
May 7, 2009
Task force member Mike Gelles, a civilian with Guantanamo Bay's Criminal Investigation Task Force, criticized the brutal methods used in interrogations there, while colleague R. Scott Shumate, a CIA psychologist, reportedly left in disgust after he witnessed the treatment of Al Qaeda operative Abu ...
Democracy Now
December 12, 2007
Is the CIA covering up the role of psychologists in torture at secret CIA prisons? Last week CIA Director Michael Hayden defended the Agency's decision to destroy two videotapes of interrogations saying they posed a “serious security risk.” He said that if they were to become public they would have ...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 26, 2007
On Wednesday, dozens of psychologists made public a joint letter to American Psychological Association president Sharon Brehm fingering another CIA-employed psychologist, R. Scott Shumate. Previous news reports led the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association to ban ...
Truthdig
June 5, 2007
Also included was R. Scott Shumate, who was the chief operational psychologist for the CIA's counterterrorism center until 2003. He then became head of the Pentagon Counterintelligence Field Activity's Behavioral Sciences directorate, overseeing psychologist participation in the interrogation process at ...
CounterPunch
January 5, 2016
The failure of the PENS Report to definitively ban psychologist .... Ample documentation of CIA interrogation abuses by psychologists, whichÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
July 13, 2015
Most recently, we were the psychologist coauthors of the report All the President's Psychologists: The American Psychological Association's Secret Complicity ... in the APA and the intelligence community, including the CIA and, most .... Scott Shumate, Steve Breckler, Judy Strassberger, Robert Sternberg,ÃÂ ...
The Public Record (blog)
May 3, 2015
The new report, All the President's Psychologists: The American ... a 2004 APA Monitor story identifies her as also being a SERE psychologist. ... NCIS's Mike Gelles and CIA's Scott Shumate, as well as the former Chief of theÃÂ ...
Business Insider
April 30, 2015
Basically, the task force recommended that a psychologist oversee ... with top national security psychologists from the CIA to discuss the APA'sÃÂ ...
The Public Record (blog)
December 16, 2013
The famous psychologist — Martin Seligman from the University of Pennsylvania ... Mitchell literally days before Mitchell and another CIA psychologist, Kirk Hubbard ... and civilian psychologists and psychiatrists with shared interests in psyops, .... from CTC's chief operational psychologist, R. Scott Shumate.
The Public Record
August 25, 2011
While it's shocking that APA would call upon psychologists to weigh an .... for the C.I.A.'s counterterrorism center, R. Scott Shumate to leave theÃÂ ...
Boston Globe
May 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Newly public e-mails between psychologists ... while colleague R. Scott Shumate, a CIA psychologist, reportedly left in disgustÃÂ ...
Democracy Now
December 10, 2007
Is the CIA covering up the role of psychologists in torture at secret CIA ... R. Scott Shumate, the chief psychologist for the CIA's counterterrorismÃÂ ...
Salon
June 21, 2007
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop .... fingering another CIA-employed psychologist, R. Scott Shumate.
Truthdig
June 5, 2007
“I'm an oral historian, maybe even before a psychologist, and I always take notes. And I was ... Also included was R. Scott Shumate, who was the chief operational psychologist for the CIA's counterterrorism center until 2003.
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