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COALITION for an ETHICAL PSYCHOLOGY Human Rights * Ethics * Social Justice COALITION FOR AN ETHICAL PSYCHOLOGY human rights * ethics * social justice www.ethicalpsychology.org The PENS Report Annulment Petition and List of Signers www.ethicalpsychology.org/pens Over the decade since the horrendous attacks of 9/11, the world has been shocked by the specter of abusive interrogations and the torture of national security prisoners by agents of the United States government. Although psychologists in the U.S. have made significant contributions to societal welfare on many fronts during this period, the profession tragically has also witnessed psychologists acting as planners, consultants, researchers, and overseers to these abusive interrogations. Moreover, in the guise of keeping interrogations “safe, legal, ethical and effective," psychologists were used to provide legal protection for otherwise illegal treatment of prisoners. The American Psychological Association’s (APA) 2005 Report of the Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security (the PENS Report) is the defining document endorsing psychologists’ engagement in detainee interrogations. Despite evidence that psychologists were involved in abusive interrogations, the PENS Task Force concluded that psychologists play a critical role in keeping interrogations “safe, legal, ethical and effective.” With this stance, the APA, the largest association of psychologists worldwide, became the sole major professional healthcare organization to support practices contrary to the international human rights standards that ought to be the benchmark against which professional codes of ethics are judged. The PENS Report remains highly influential today. Negating efforts by APA members to limit the damages – including passage of an unprecedented member-initiated referendum in 2008 – the Department of Defense continues to disseminate the PENS Report in its instructions to psychologists involved in intelligence operations. The Report also has been adopted, at least informally, as the foundational ethics document for “operational psychology” as an area of specialization involving psychologists in counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations. And the PENS Report is repeatedly cited as a resource for ethical decision-making in the APA Ethics Committee’s new National Security Commentary, a “casebook” for which the APA is currently soliciting feedback. Equally troubling, the PENS Report was the result of institutional processes that were illegitimate, inconsistent with APA’s own standards, and far outside the norms of transparency, independence, diversity, and deliberation for similar task forces established by professional associations. Deeply problematic aspects include the inherent bias in the Task Force membership (e.g., six of the nine voting members were on the payroll of the U.S. military and/or intelligence agencies, with five having served in chains of command accused of prisoner abuses); significant conflicts of interest (e.g., unacknowledged participants included the spouse of a Guantánamo intelligence psychologist and several high-level lobbyists for Department of Defense and CIA funding for psychologists); irregularities in the report approval process (e.g., the Board’s use of emergency powers that preempted standard review mechanisms); and unwarranted secrecy associated with the Report (e.g., unusual prohibitions on Task Force members’ freedom to discuss the Report). These realities point to the impossibility and inadequacy of merely updating or correcting deficiencies in the PENS Report. We the undersigned organizations and individuals – health professionals, social scientists, social justice and human rights scholars and activists, and concerned military and intelligence professionals – therefore declare that the PENS Report is illegitimate. We call upon the American Psychological Association to take immediate steps to annul the PENS Report. At the same time, in our own efforts, we aim to make the illegitimacy of the PENS Report more broadly known within our communities. Organizational and Individual Signers (Updated as of 7-18-12) 34 Organizational Signers Divisions of the American Psychological Association Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology (Division 6 of the American Psychological Association) Executive Committee of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association) Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the American Psychological Association) Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association) Executive Committee of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology (Division 34 of the American Psychological Association) Psychoanalysis (Division 39 of the American Psychological Association) Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility (Section IX of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association) Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association) Executive Committee of the Society for Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy (Division 49 of the American Psychological Association) Other Organizations Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Bill of Rights Defense Committee Center for Constitutional Rights Center for justice and Accountability Defence for Children International -- Palestine Section Human Rights USA International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry Massachusetts Campaign Against Torture MindFreedom International National Lawyers Guild National Religious Campaign Against Torture Network of Spiritual Progressives 2 New York Campaign Against Torture Peace Committee, 15th Street Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Physicians for Human Rights Program for Torture Victims Psychoactive -- Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights, Israel Psychologists for Social Responsibility Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Science for Peace Veterans for Peace Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity 2,101 INDIVIDUAL SIGNERS (Listed affiliations are for identification purposes only) Philip Zimbardo, President, American Psychological Association (2002); Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Stanford University Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York Michael Wessells, PhD, APA PENS Task Force Member, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Columbia University jean Maria Arrigo, PhD, APA PENS Task Force Member, Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General (Ret), U.S. Army Morton Deutsch, Past President, APA Divisions 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology), 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), and 48 (Peace Psychology); Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Nora Sveaass, UN Committee Against Torture; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, Economics (Harvard 1962), Senior Fellow, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Director Truth-Telling Project, Kensington CA Marybeth Shinn, PhD, Professor, Vanderbilt University; Past President, APA Divisions 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) and 27 (Society for Community Research and Action); Nashville TN George Hunsinger, Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary Herbert C. Kelman, PhD, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University; Past President, APA Divisions 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) and 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues); past member, APA Board of Directors, Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility, and Ethics Committee; Cambridge, Massachusetts 3 Anthony Marsella, Past President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii Kristine Huskey, Director, Anti-Torture Program, Physicians for Human Rights; Guantanamo detainee habeas counsel (2002-2011) Nathaniel A. Raymond, Former Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights Leonard Rubenstein, Senior Scholar, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, johns Hopkins School of Public Health Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor (ret.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manfred Nowak, Professor for International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights Rebecca Rooney, PhD, Psychologist, Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, US Army, APA, NYSPA, HVPA, Middletown, NY Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis FBI Legal Counsel Michelle Fine, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Karen Hollis, PhD, President, APA Division 3 (Experimental Psychology); Past President, APA Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology), Granby MA Maureen O'Connor, PhD Psychology; JD, Professor, City University of New York, Brooklyn NY Leila Dane, PhD, Past President of APA Division 48 (Peace Psychology), Executive Director, Institute for Victims of Trauma, McLean, VA Richard Lewontin, PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Evelyne Shuster, PhD, Research Ethics and Compliance,
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