2015-08-08

[DIV28SUPER] Council Vote - Media Coverage

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From: "Garrison, Ellen" <egarrison@APA.ORG>
Subject: [COR] Council Vote - Media Coverage
Date: August 8, 2015 at 12:09:57 PM EDT
Reply-To: "Garrison, Ellen" <egarrison@APA.ORG>
 
Greetings, everyone. See below for the listing of media coverage related to yesterday's momentous Council action, compiled by Kim Mills and her colleagues in our Public and Member Communications Office.
 
I have hard copies of the NYT article if you happen to see me.
 
Ellen Garrison

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APA News Release: APA's Council Bans Psychologist Participation In National Security Interrogations

 
New York Times - ‎August 7, 2015
TORONTO — The American Psychological Association on Friday overwhelmingly approved a new ban on any involvement by psychologists in national security interrogations conducted by the United States government, even noncoercive interrogations now ...
 
New York Times – August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association voted to bar psychologists from involvement in all national security interrogations. The move was aimed at restoring ...
 
MSNBC – August 7, 2015
APA: "The American Psychological Association on Friday overwhelmingly approved a new ban on any involvement by psychologists in national security ...
 
NPR - ‎August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association voted Friday in favor of a      resolution that would bar its members from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution by the country's largest professional organization of psychologists passed ...
 
5. These Six Rebel Psychologists Just Won A Long War Against Torture
BuzzFeed – August 7, 2015
They were ridiculed and sidelined by the leadership of the American Psychological Association, which they accused of complicity in human rights abuses. When the association voted to ban psychologists from these activities on Friday, the rebels scored an improbable — and emotional — victory.
 
TIME - ‎August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association barred psychologists Friday from participating in national security interrogations at sites violating international law. A panel of the group's leaders passed a resolution enacting the ban by an overwhelming 156-1 ...
 
Chronicle of Higher Education - ‎August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association approved a resolution on Friday to bar its members from involvement in national-security interrogations, a move meant to resolve a longstanding controversy over the role of psychologists in the harsh questioning ...
 
Al Jazeera America - ‎August 7, 2015 ‎
The American Psychological Association (APA) voted overwhelmingly on Friday to prohibit members from participating in interrogations conducted by United States intelligence agencies at locations deemed illegal under international law. The decision ...
 
The Guardian - ‎August 7, 2015
The largest association of psychologists in the United States voted to begin reversing its policy of collusion in torture on Friday by prohibiting members of the American Psychological Association from participating in the interrogation of US prisoners ...
 
Democracy Now! - ‎August 7, 2015‎
We broadcast from Toronto, Canada, where the largest group of psychologists in the world, the American Psychological Association, his holding its first meeting since the release of a stunning report confirming the APA leadership actively colluded with ...
 
Democracy Now! - ‎August 7, 2015‎
We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter James Risen, who has extensively reported on the APA's ties to the CIA and Pentagon's torture program and is in Toronto to cover the American Psychological Association's annual meeting.
 
Democracy Now! - ‎August  7, 2015‎
We broadcast from Toronto, Canada, site of the annual convention of the largest group of psychologists in the world, the American Psychological Association. Ahead of a vote on a resolution to bar psychologists from participating in national security ...
 
Arkansas Online - ‎5 hours ago‎
TORONTO -- The American Psychological Association on Friday overwhelmingly approved a ban on any involvement by psychologists in national security interrogations conducted by the U.S. government, even noncoercive interrogations that are now U.S. ...
 
Sputnik International - ‎August 7, 2015 ‎
In what may seem like a no brainer, the American Psychological Association has voted to ban any member from participating in government torture programs. The decision follows a report which details the organization's role in justifying "enhanced ...
 
The Verge - ‎August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association made a nearly unanimous decision today to bar psychologists from participating in national security interrogations, The New York Times reports. The decision was a response to an independent report that came out ...
 
Wired - ‎August 7, 2015
Today, the American Psychological Association voted to ban any collaboration between psychologists and national military and intelligence interrogators. The vote came in the wake of an independent report, released by the APA in July, that revealed that ...
 
Inverse - ‎August 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association has announced a ban preventing its members from participating in government interrogations. APA members were implicated in the "Hoffman Report" last week that detailed the excesses of the CIA torture program ...
 
2paragraphs.com - ‎August 7, 2015‎
After seeing some of its own deeply implicated in controversial interrogation practices used by the US government, the American Psychological Association (APA) is voting on a policy that would prohibit its members from participating in this kind of ...


 
 
Kim I. Mills, MA
Deputy Executive Director
Public & Member Communications
American Psychological Association
750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242
Tel: 202 336-6048 |  Cell: 571 216-5596

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