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1Dr. Aggarwal is a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, New York, NY. aggarwa@nyspi.columbia.edu.
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In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a declassified executive summary on the use by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorist detainees in the War on Terror. The report relies on 6 million pages of documents that describe the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, providing a systematic and comprehensive investigation into covert military and intelligence practices after the attacks on September 11, 2001. This article presents an analysis of key findings related to forensic mental health. I explore their implications for the ethics of mental health professionals who work with military and intelligence agencies and for facts disputed within the Guantánamo military commission system. Opportunities for further study and theoretical development are outlined.
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