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President Obama formally halted enhanced interrogation in 2009, but it was only this December, when the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a 500-page executive summary on "enhanced interrogation," that the public found out about atrocities like "rectal feeding" and interrogators threatening to kill detainees' families.In the meantime, rumors of collusion between America's premier psychological organization and the feds persisted—so much so that last November, the APA launched an independent investigation into the matter. The author's note for "All the President's Psychologists" expresses hope that these emails will inform that probe, which is expected to be released by Chicago attorney David Hoffman sometime this spring.Until then, at least, the APA is sticking to its guns, with a spokeswoman insisting to the Times that there "has never been any coordination between APA and the Bush administration on how APA responded to the controversies about the role of psychologists in the interrogations program."Follow Allie Conti on Twitter.I was pleased to help staff the Task Force and [former Bush White House official Dr.] Susan [Brandon] serving as an Observer (note she has returned to NIMH, at least temporarily) helped craft some language related to research and I hope we can take advantage of the reorganization of the National Intelligence Program, with its new emphasis on human intelligence, to find a welcoming home for more psychological science.