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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:53PM
The parent comment is one of the best examples for what is wrong with the general population of conservatives today. Instead of standing against torture they turn it into some political game trying to annoy liberals.
I guess it makes sense, they got their man in the white house but for some strange reason they still don't feel like they're "winning!" so they need to take their frustration out on their "enemies". It is amazing how effective the media brainwashing has been, the typical "patriot" types are now pro-torture and fascism and they apparently have zero idea that they are so far past the line of freedom as to be laughable.
Conservatives have lost their way big time as they've been hooked into a cycle of fear and hate. The fear has been instigated through economic warfare, taking away the very means of survival (good paying jobs) and then pumping people full of propaganda to make sure their fear turns into anger directed at whatever target of opportunity presents itself.
People fighting for basic human rights are now labeled SJW cucks #fakenews and offered death threats. It is astounding in a profoundly sad way.
A similar theme exists for some liberals, but thankfully the same techniques don't quite work the same on the liberal minded. Instead you have to present liberals with actual injustice, and the media does try and manipulate them that way as well. Thankfully there is less fear and hate from the liberals, otherwise we probably would be in an actual civil war right now that would ignite every city in the US.