[2][5] On July 2, 2015, a 542-page independent review report conducted by former assistant U.S. Attorney David H. Hoffman was issued to the special committee of the board of directors of the American Psychological Association relating to ethics guidelines, enhanced interrogation techniques, and torture.
[6][7] According to The Washington Post, The probe concluded that the association's ethics director and others had "colluded with important [Department of Defense] officials to have APA issue loose, high-level ethical guidelines that did not constrain" the Pentagon in its interrogation of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"[5]James Risen reported in the New York Times that Behnke was among prominent psychologists who worked closely with the C.I.A.
[8]According to The Guardian newspaper Behnke was fired from his job as the APA's ethics chief as a result of being involved in recasting its ethics guidelines in a manner conducive to interrogations that, from the start, relied heavily on psychologists to design and implement techniques like waterboarding.
[2]Nathaniel Raymond, former director of the campaign against torture at Physicians for Human Rights said, This is the single greatest health professional ethics scandal of the 21st century.