APA removes infamous
03/01/2010
Last week, the American Psychological Association (APA) finally revised its ethics code so that it no longer contained the so-called Nuremberg Defense, allowing dispensing with professional ethics when they conflicted with law, regulations, other governing legal authority. This clause was added in 2002, at the heyday of the Bush administration. APA dissidents, retired military personnel, ethicists,and human rights advocates have long pushed for its removal. read more
Doctors Without Morals
03/01/2010
After five years of investigation, the Justice Department has released its findings regarding the government lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture during the interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere... In contrast, the government doctors and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation... read more
The Torture Lawyers
02/24/2010
Is this really the state of ethics in the American legal profession? Government lawyers who abused their offices to give the president license to get away with torture did nothing that merits a review by the bar? read more
