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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Breaking the sound barrier

The real anti-torture president

Posted by Amy Goodman on Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:01 PM

Imagine, a candidate for president who, a year or so ago, no one would have considered electable. Now the person is the front-runner, with a groundswell of grass-roots support, threatening the sense of inevitability of the establishment candidates. No, I'm not talking about the American presidential race, but the race for president of the largest association of psychologists in the world, the American Psychological Association. At the heart of the election is a raging debate over torture and interrogations. While the other healing professions, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association, bar their members from participating in interrogations, the APA leadership has fought against such a restriction.

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