Intelligent Disobedience As Resource for Preventing Abuse in National Security Interrogation

When it was revealed that officials of the American Psychological Association may have cooperated with the Bush administration to justify harsh interrogation techniques (which the government now classifies as torture), the APA retained David Hoffman, an attorney in Austin, Texas, to conduct an independent review anddetermine the facts of the reported collusion.The results of the Hoffman report causedtheAPA’s Council of Representatives to voteoverwhelmingly on August 7to prohibit psycholog...