Training center for military interrogators at Yale School of Medicine?

[InterrogatorMD]

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As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus.

The center’s primary goal would be to coach U.S. Special Forces on interviewing tactics designed to detect lies. Charles Morgan III, a professor of psychiatry who will head the project, calls these tactics “people skills.” These techniques would be honed using New Haven’s immigrant community as subjects. Morgan hopes that by having soldiers practice their newly acquired techniques on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with” (read: someone who is not white), they’ll be better prepared to do ‘the real thing’ abroad.

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/02/15/batraville-and-lew-dod-plans-are-shortsighted-unethical/

A plan to establish a US Army training center at the Yale School of Medicine is stirring controversy and confusion.

The center, called a US Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neuroscience, would reportedly be funded by a $1.8 million Defense Department grant and run by Charles A. Morgan III ’97MA, an MD and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the med school. That much seems clear. Then the confusion and controversy begin.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1357

 

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As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus.

The center’s primary goal would be to coach U.S. Special Forces on interviewing tactics designed to detect lies. Charles Morgan III, a professor of psychiatry who will head the project, calls these tactics “people skills.” These techniques would be honed using New Haven’s immigrant community as subjects. Morgan hopes that by having soldiers practice their newly acquired techniques on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with” (read: someone who is not white), they’ll be better prepared to do ‘the real thing’ abroad.

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/02/15/batraville-and-lew-dod-plans-are-shortsighted-unethical/

A plan to establish a US Army training center at the Yale School of Medicine is stirring controversy and confusion.

The center, called a US Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neuroscience, would reportedly be funded by a $1.8 million Defense Department grant and run by Charles A. Morgan III ’97MA, an MD and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the med school. That much seems clear. Then the confusion and controversy begin.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1357

and? im lost as to the point of this post

 

[Bangersandmash]

This thread title has a question in it, but your post seems to indicate the training center as a definite.

Thanks for the info guy!

 

[Erakis]

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[LizzyM]

It is not yet a done deal. This is a comprehensive story:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/...mmigrant_advocates_to_yale_were_not_lab_rats/

 

[Mt Kilimanjaro]

First of all, DoD is about to get gutted so this whole issue might be moot.

Secondly, do residents at every teaching hospital in this country practice painful procedures like lumbar punctures on poor, vulnerable immigrants? Are those patients informed or compensated?

Does Yale use any non-white standardized patients for pelvic/penile exams during the M1 and M2 years? Do those patients knowingly participate in exchange for reimbursement?

Having one's pelvic region serially explored by a cadre of awkward medical students would likely be far more uncomfortable than pretending to lie to some Green Berets.

 

[Eiot]

Took Theories of Interviewing (interrogation) a couple years ago. Was well worth my time, would recommend!

 

[Goucher2013]

It is not yet a done deal. This is a comprehensive story:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/..._advocates_to_yale_were_not_lab_rats/id_55317

Am I the only reader who finds it ironic that the New Haven Independent article mentions a lot of concerns about the proposed center becoming a sort of imperialist training site but also embeds a report by the Russia Today network?