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Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

By Ben Greenberg on May 1, 2009

ABC News reports that psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1000/day to design and implement the US torture program.
According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.
Bruce Jessen [...]

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The Role of Health Professionals in Bush-Era Torture

By Ben Greenberg on April 26, 2009

On Wednesday, just after the Senate Armed Services Committee released its report on the Bush Administration’s torture program, Firedoglake hosted a live online chat with Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture. Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith introduced the online discussion, saying:
As the details spill out, again and again two names keep appearing — James Mitchell and [...]

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