'A national hero': psychologist who warned of torture collusion gets her due

Jean Maria Arrigo was largely ignored and the subject of a smear campaign for sounding alarms about psychologists' post-9/11 torture complicity but has emerged from the damning report as the story's hero - and martyr

Jean Maria Arrigo's inbox is filling up with apologies.

For a decade, colleagues of the 71-year-old psychologist ignored, derided and in some cases attacked Arrigo for sounding alarms that the American Psychological Association was implicated in US torture. But now that a devastating report has exposed deep APA complicity with brutal CIA and US military interrogations - and a smear campaign against Arrigo herself - her colleagues are expressing contrition.