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Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial

posted by martyb on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.

cafebabe writes:

From Wikileaks (via Vinay Gupta):

Judge rules two psychologists, Mitchell and Jessen, who made millions as consultants for the CIA's torture program can face trial.

How do you get into the business of being a torture consultant? Good question because when they started:

Neither man had ever carried out a real interrogation, had language skills or expertise on al Qaeda - the chief enemy in the war on terror - when the CIA handpicked Mitchell and Jessen to spearhead its supposed intelligence gathering program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Their psychology backgrounds were in family therapy; their Ph.D. dissertations were on high blood pressure.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:56PM (#546894)

    They can't prescribe drugs; they just recommend someone else do it.
    They can't torture anyone; they just recommend someone else do it.

    All the while psychologists hide behind their credentials and disclaim responsibility.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday July 31 2017, @07:04AM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday July 31 2017, @07:04AM (#547010) Journal

    They can't prescribe drugs; they just recommend someone else do it.

    Because AMA wants full control. And AMA is controlled by the pharmaceutical industry.
    Questions? ;)

    All the while psychologists hide behind their credentials and disclaim responsibility.

    Common theme in most societies.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday July 31 2017, @06:33PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday July 31 2017, @06:33PM (#547285) Journal

      Not the AMA! As a crazy person, you should know this! APA, the American Psychological Association, which was torn apart by what these war criminals did, and failed to do the right thing and blackball them. Hopefully the legal system will do what the professional organization so egregiously failed to. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of torture-enablers!