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on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:28PM
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.
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: 2) by bradley13 on Monday July 31 2017, @05:39AM (3 children)
These two provided some (rather pathetic) scientific cover for what the CIA wanted to do anyway.
It's good to see them going on trial, but the real criminals worked directly for the CIA, plus everyone all the way up the chain who knew about the program. Why aren't they on trial?
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 31 2017, @11:09AM (2 children)
Yes. Everyone involved, from the guys who ordered it, to the guys like these who enabled it, to the guys who did it, must be hanged. It's the only way to be sure. Everyone must understand that if they commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, that their lives will be forfeit. End of story.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @03:21PM (1 child)
While these private medical "experts" probably deserve prison, they also seem to be scapegoats for the spooks who allowed them to do work for the Feds to begin with. "Well, the experts said it was okay."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @05:09PM
Haha yeah no kidding, at some point the bottom has to drop out, the public has to suddenly stop and say "wait, but the emperor is naked!"