Cross-posted from Unbossed. A team of psychologists, retired intelligence professionals, and ethicists are preparing a casebook on interrogation ethics and have asked for help in getting out the word to anyone who might be willing to contribute information about military interrogations, including the role played by psychologists. The Interrogation Ethics Casebook is a project of the End Torture Committee of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, and a really important step in the process of eliminating torture.

One of those working on the project is Dr. Donald Soeken. Dr. Soeken is well-known for his efforts to stop a government practice of orchestrating abusive psychiatric examinations as retaliation against whistleblowers. Below, with his permission is a more detailed description of the casebook project, along with contact information, from the Integrity International website.

Promoted - standingup

As the Bush administration enters its final six months, truthtellers in government positions should take care: government officials will be tempted to sweep their agencies clean of evidence and whistleblowers before a new administration takes over.

Already, the Bush administration has issued a new executive memo allowing government agencies to conjure up their own penalties for disclosing information covered by a new, broad and poorly defined controls on information (thanks, smintheus). It's a bad portent of things to come.

Saving truthtellers and restoring government integrity depends on proposed legislation that would give whistleblowers badly-needed protections; legislation that is now stalled.

Next week, whistleblowers from around the country will meet for a conference in Washington, D.C., to describe the perils of exposing corruption, waste and abuses of power, hopefully to convince Congress to pass legislation that would save others from suffering similar fates. But, their success will depend heavily on public support - a good turnout of citizens attending the conference events or calling their representatives to urge stronger whistleblower protections.

Promoted -- GH

This week, May 12-16, the International Assembly of Whistleblowers will hold a conference in Washington, D.C. to publicly describe the challenges they faced in bringing to light corruption and abuses of power by the federal government, its contractors and the medical community.

The event is free, and the public is welcome to attend. (If you register for the event here, disregard the request for a registration fee, which is in error.) The schedule of events (including times and locations) is available on the IAW website. Below, I have summarized the schedule and added details not available on the website.