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.
(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!"