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Torture Report Coverage

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In recent news, the US Senate released its findings detailing the methods used by the CIA to interrogate prisoners of war (and alleged terrorists) captured during the Bush Administration’s War on Terror. This scathing 6700 page report, dubbed the Torture Report, details the techniques used; techniques that include sleep and light deprivation, waterboarding, sexual assault, and something called “rectal feeding”( Bioethics Program, 2014). This is of personal concern to me, as I was a medic in the Army, trained to uphold the Geneva Convention and save lives on either side of the conflict; plus the ordeal has become a blight on the APA-the American Psychological Association (who was named specifically), and Division Nineteen (Military Psychology);
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