Students and alumni at Yale University are organizing against a proposed
campus center to train special operations forces in interview
techniques. The center would be funded by a $1.8 million grant from the
Pentagon and could open as early as April. Dubbed an "interrogation
center" by critics, the facility would be housed at the Yale School of
Medicine and led by Charles Morgan, a professor of psychiatry who
previously conducted research on how to tell whether Arab and Muslim men
are lying. We speak to two students at Yale who co-authored an
editorial titled "DoD Plans are Shortsighted, Unethical," and with
Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at Boston
University School of Public Health and a 1990 graduate of the Yale
School of Medicine. "Yale has now crossed a line," Siegel says. "Using
the practice of medicine and medical research to help design advanced
interrogation techniques, or even just regular civilian
intelligence-gathering techniques, interviewing techniques, is not an
appropriate use of medicine. The practice of medicine was designed to
improve people’s health. And the school of medicine should not be taking
part in either training or research that is primarily designed to
enhance military objectives."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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