Sunday, 3 May 2015, NEW YORK, NY- As in the aftermath of any modern day atrocity with worldwide impact degrading all human civilization and causing intense human suffering and misery there must be a large number of intimately involved culpable persons later in great personal fear of the inevitable march of justice bearing down on them demanding in civilized societies official public prosecution such that the continued aggressive avoidance of this inevitability comes to obsess their thoughts and determine their actions since no matter what the scope of their punishment they keenly are aware it hardly could be compared in scope and degree to the intensity of the sadistic depravity of the pain they have inflicted upon other human beings with perceived impunity, in the United States today for far too long such has been the case of not addressed by swift justice acts of atrocity committed by the as yet unprosecuted responsible participants at large in the irrefutably documented Bush Administration C.I.A. years-long torture program war crimes against humanity atrocities who from the outset had been joined in their deviously demented torture program and moreover in time actively enabled and encouraged by supposed "professionals" as thoroughly documented officially and communicated elsewhere publicly in widespread media reports as well as in many previous posts here with links provided to countless primary sources with torture-enabling professionals extending from legal hacks for hire stretching from the White House to the CIA to the Department of Justice to "medical professional" psychologist whores James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen who were paid $180 million by the C.I.A. to design its bogus depraved human torture program on the basis of no credible "interrogation" training or "torture" experience (such evidently being a valid job requirement for psychologists) whatsoever other than as now turns out what justification willingly and enthusiastically was provided after the fact by top officials of the American Psychological Association in support of their whore members' "work" with its officials supplicating themselves by encouragement of of torture with C.I.A. officials who with very good reason were most eager to suck others into responsibility for the cruelty of their criminal calamity extremely concerned that their and those for whom they were responsible actions were legally, evidently "medically" by psychology standards anyway, ethically and morally defensible or in other words would keep the whole filthy guilty gang of them out of prison or worse.
The details and extent of that encouragement or "bolstering" by American Psychological Association officials is well presented including the latest emerged supporting clear email evidence by Mr. James Risen reporting in the New York Times article of late last week linked to below. It may be of tangential interest to some readers that African-American attorney former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling for providing classified information to Mr. Risen not related to the matter at hand was last January 2015 convicted in U.S. Federal District Court in Alexandria, Virginia of espionage for which the U.S. government has sought a sentence of 19-24 years in prison consistent with the apparently not that "transparent" Obama Administration's severe crackdown to date on a "string" of federal employees and contractors who have been believed to have disclosed confidential information to news reporters. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder later admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on Mr. Risen's refusal to reveal sources that the Obama administration had "gone too far" in its crackdown as to reporters revealing sources.
In any case what may turn out to be a most fortuitous turn of events for Mr. Sterling just the day before his scheduled 24 April 2015 sentencing hearing as reported here former CIA "love note" Director ex-General David Petraeus had been sentenced only to two years probation and a fine for "grave" breaches of confidentiality of national security information. (The Washington Post has dubbed Petraeus "[f]rom hero to zero".) Consequently with the outcry of his attorneys at the expected injustice of the laughable sentencing of the connected white ex-General vs. the 9-14 years recommended for the solitary black man Mr. Sterling's sentencing now has been continued to 11 May 2015. Finally the attorney for Edward J. Snowden who currently is exiled in Russia for disclosures to the press of N.S.A. unconstitutional mass surveillance and metadata collection states that his client Snowden is "under investigation" by the Department of Justice while he has made previous complaints about the "two-tier" system of justice for those charged with disclosing confidential information in a Foreign Policy online article linked to below and doubtless now also will point to the Petraeus case as pertinent to any prosecution of Mr. Snowden and his other "whistle-blower" clients In any case back to the above report for anyone still following this responding late last year to the first public allegations against the American Psychological Association of its "bolstering" of the C.I.A.'s torture program a decade earlier in 2004 by hob-nobbing with and actually formulating torture compliant psychological practice "guidelines" while also helping its new C.I.A. psychological and "behavioral health" colleagues in manipulating the language of the C.I.A.'s own torture guidelines so as presumably to try to shield Bush Administration and C.I.A. officials and their increasingly nervous Department of Justice counterparts form liability and provide them some "medical justification" that not only were the members of the whole war crimes against humanity atrocities conspiracy doing no medical or legal wrong but that all could continue with impunity to support the torture of human beings which the C.I.A. then did for a few more years with the actual C.I.A. operative and contractor torturers sick enough to bear actually remaining on-site(s) in any case completely ignoring the torture guidelines as they haphazardly devised new depraved methods of cruel and unusual punishment pointlessly inflicting agonizing pain on humans whom they had kidnapped and/or captured which torture succeeded in producing no information of any reliability or any practical use whatsoever the American Psychological Association nevertheless has maintained in a letter linked to below it did nothing at all wrong but in any case last November 2014 engaged David Hoffman of the "white shoe" Washington, D.C. law firm Sidley Austin to conduct an "independent review" on the alleged collusion of his client's top psychologist officials with the C.I.A. in the American Psychological Association condoning and encouraging torture practices with which review Mr. Hoffman has not yet finished but hopes to before summer although in the meantime dissident health professionals and human rights activists who are not paid by the hour and work more quickly have already finished and just released their utterly damning report which is accessible in Mr. Risen's article linked to below.
Letters to the editor follow in the second link below first concerning "deeply troubled" officials at the American Psychological Association denying assistance to the Bush Administration in justifying its use of torture and emphasizing that its "psychologists are prohibited from participating in torture" and referring readers who care to go to its website to read its policy on psychologists participation in interrogation. Next in the second link below comes an extremely severe utterly condemning letter from dissident psychologists expressing hope the report just released will bring finally an "end to the corruption embedded at the top" in the leadership of the American Psychological Association presumably meaning they all will be booted out permanently as they "provided loopholes for American psychologists to work in torture chambers" whose "duty to 'do no harm' and promote human health and the public good" they "blithely traded" for "access to power and privilege" which "is an ethical scandal of the highest degree."' The final letter to the editor last in the second link below is from the American Psychiatric Association making clear the "intensity of opposition" of that organization to the use of torture much less the participation of any its physicians in the practice of either torture or interrogation (in case any readers were confusing psychiatrists with psychologists.)
The Ninth Amendment without editorial comment refers readers interested in more information to the below links referenced previously which are: (1) Mr. Risen's article reporting the findings of the report on the psychological association "bolstering" of CIA torture; (2) letters to the editor from the psychological association, dissident psychologists, and the psychiatric association; (3) Vanity Fair article detailing the background of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen and the torture program they concocted for the C.I.A. for $180 million; (4) article on espionage conviction of Jeffrey Sterling for disclosing information to Mr. Risen unrelated to any provision of information to Mr. Risen in this matter; (5) and (6) articles regarding prosecutors urging severe 9-14 year sentence for Mr. Sterling then complicated by intervening Petraeus grave national security breaches getting misdemeanor probation and fine; and (7) Mr. Snowden's attorney's Foreign Policy online article alleging a "two-tiered" justice system for those disclosing confidential information.
(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/the-psychologists-'sand-the-torturers.html
(3) http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report
(4) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/cia-officer-in-leak-case-jeffrey-sterling-is-convicted-of-espionage.html
(5) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-prosecutors-urge-severe-sentence-for-ex-cia-agent-in-leak-case/2015/04/21/4c8d1f5e-c001-4757-9b2a-50adf23b8d3c_story.html
(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/attorneys-ask-judge-to-consider-petraeus-in-sentencing-ex-cia-officer/2015/04/24/cb970906-ea94-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html
(7) https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/04/petraeus-snowden-and-the-department-of-two-tiered-justice/
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The details and extent of that encouragement or "bolstering" by American Psychological Association officials is well presented including the latest emerged supporting clear email evidence by Mr. James Risen reporting in the New York Times article of late last week linked to below. It may be of tangential interest to some readers that African-American attorney former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling for providing classified information to Mr. Risen not related to the matter at hand was last January 2015 convicted in U.S. Federal District Court in Alexandria, Virginia of espionage for which the U.S. government has sought a sentence of 19-24 years in prison consistent with the apparently not that "transparent" Obama Administration's severe crackdown to date on a "string" of federal employees and contractors who have been believed to have disclosed confidential information to news reporters. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder later admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on Mr. Risen's refusal to reveal sources that the Obama administration had "gone too far" in its crackdown as to reporters revealing sources.
In any case what may turn out to be a most fortuitous turn of events for Mr. Sterling just the day before his scheduled 24 April 2015 sentencing hearing as reported here former CIA "love note" Director ex-General David Petraeus had been sentenced only to two years probation and a fine for "grave" breaches of confidentiality of national security information. (The Washington Post has dubbed Petraeus "[f]rom hero to zero".) Consequently with the outcry of his attorneys at the expected injustice of the laughable sentencing of the connected white ex-General vs. the 9-14 years recommended for the solitary black man Mr. Sterling's sentencing now has been continued to 11 May 2015. Finally the attorney for Edward J. Snowden who currently is exiled in Russia for disclosures to the press of N.S.A. unconstitutional mass surveillance and metadata collection states that his client Snowden is "under investigation" by the Department of Justice while he has made previous complaints about the "two-tier" system of justice for those charged with disclosing confidential information in a Foreign Policy online article linked to below and doubtless now also will point to the Petraeus case as pertinent to any prosecution of Mr. Snowden and his other "whistle-blower" clients In any case back to the above report for anyone still following this responding late last year to the first public allegations against the American Psychological Association of its "bolstering" of the C.I.A.'s torture program a decade earlier in 2004 by hob-nobbing with and actually formulating torture compliant psychological practice "guidelines" while also helping its new C.I.A. psychological and "behavioral health" colleagues in manipulating the language of the C.I.A.'s own torture guidelines so as presumably to try to shield Bush Administration and C.I.A. officials and their increasingly nervous Department of Justice counterparts form liability and provide them some "medical justification" that not only were the members of the whole war crimes against humanity atrocities conspiracy doing no medical or legal wrong but that all could continue with impunity to support the torture of human beings which the C.I.A. then did for a few more years with the actual C.I.A. operative and contractor torturers sick enough to bear actually remaining on-site(s) in any case completely ignoring the torture guidelines as they haphazardly devised new depraved methods of cruel and unusual punishment pointlessly inflicting agonizing pain on humans whom they had kidnapped and/or captured which torture succeeded in producing no information of any reliability or any practical use whatsoever the American Psychological Association nevertheless has maintained in a letter linked to below it did nothing at all wrong but in any case last November 2014 engaged David Hoffman of the "white shoe" Washington, D.C. law firm Sidley Austin to conduct an "independent review" on the alleged collusion of his client's top psychologist officials with the C.I.A. in the American Psychological Association condoning and encouraging torture practices with which review Mr. Hoffman has not yet finished but hopes to before summer although in the meantime dissident health professionals and human rights activists who are not paid by the hour and work more quickly have already finished and just released their utterly damning report which is accessible in Mr. Risen's article linked to below.
Letters to the editor follow in the second link below first concerning "deeply troubled" officials at the American Psychological Association denying assistance to the Bush Administration in justifying its use of torture and emphasizing that its "psychologists are prohibited from participating in torture" and referring readers who care to go to its website to read its policy on psychologists participation in interrogation. Next in the second link below comes an extremely severe utterly condemning letter from dissident psychologists expressing hope the report just released will bring finally an "end to the corruption embedded at the top" in the leadership of the American Psychological Association presumably meaning they all will be booted out permanently as they "provided loopholes for American psychologists to work in torture chambers" whose "duty to 'do no harm' and promote human health and the public good" they "blithely traded" for "access to power and privilege" which "is an ethical scandal of the highest degree."' The final letter to the editor last in the second link below is from the American Psychiatric Association making clear the "intensity of opposition" of that organization to the use of torture much less the participation of any its physicians in the practice of either torture or interrogation (in case any readers were confusing psychiatrists with psychologists.)
The Ninth Amendment without editorial comment refers readers interested in more information to the below links referenced previously which are: (1) Mr. Risen's article reporting the findings of the report on the psychological association "bolstering" of CIA torture; (2) letters to the editor from the psychological association, dissident psychologists, and the psychiatric association; (3) Vanity Fair article detailing the background of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen and the torture program they concocted for the C.I.A. for $180 million; (4) article on espionage conviction of Jeffrey Sterling for disclosing information to Mr. Risen unrelated to any provision of information to Mr. Risen in this matter; (5) and (6) articles regarding prosecutors urging severe 9-14 year sentence for Mr. Sterling then complicated by intervening Petraeus grave national security breaches getting misdemeanor probation and fine; and (7) Mr. Snowden's attorney's Foreign Policy online article alleging a "two-tiered" justice system for those disclosing confidential information.
(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/the-psychologists-'sand-the-torturers.html
(3) http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report
(4) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/cia-officer-in-leak-case-jeffrey-sterling-is-convicted-of-espionage.html
(5) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-prosecutors-urge-severe-sentence-for-ex-cia-agent-in-leak-case/2015/04/21/4c8d1f5e-c001-4757-9b2a-50adf23b8d3c_story.html
(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/attorneys-ask-judge-to-consider-petraeus-in-sentencing-ex-cia-officer/2015/04/24/cb970906-ea94-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html
(7) https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/04/petraeus-snowden-and-the-department-of-two-tiered-justice/
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