Psychologists employed to help break detainees

In an article sure to send Andrew Sullivan through the stratosphere with hysterical apoplexy, the New York Times is "reporting" that psychologists were employed by the military to give advice on how to break detainees at Guantanamo.

I can see the likes of Sullivan and others going batty with outrage, but let's just step back for a moment. Interrogation is a natural bedfellow with psychology and is intuitively developed by those trained in psychology in order to find efficient ways to extract confessions by either using mental tricks or the mental makeup of the detainee. I would think that those two fields are organically and inextricably intertwined, and really, a non-issue.

But let's just wait for the hyperventilators to come out of the woodwork.