Post Military Career
James has also served on the Presidential Task Force on Military Deployment Services for Youth, Families and Service Members.
In 2008 James was hired as the Dean of Wright State University School of Professional Psychology.
In 2008 he published a memoir, entitled: "Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib". A review in the Brooklyn Rail described the book as James's defense against insinuations he was a "torture shrink", and noted:
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- James admits that in 2002, the year before his tenure at Guantanamo, a team of CIA psychologists came to Cuba to train soldiers in harsh interrogation methods. But by James’ account, the whole point of his mission at Guantanamo, and then at Abu Ghraib, was to reverse the culture of abuse that resulted.
Trudy Bond, another psychologist, requested in 2008 that the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists review the ethics of James' work in Guantanamo. When the board dismissed Bond's complaint she requested the Board's actions be reviewed. State District Judge Mike Caldwell ruled he didn't have jurisdiction over the Board. Bond is considering appealing Caldwell's decision.
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