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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 Monday July 31 2017, @07:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:09PM (#547306)

    Not that the Nazi were perfectly fine, but... you've fallen for the typical propaganda. Stalin was way worse, but he helped write history.

    Every successful civilization is built upon a hill of skulls. It's easy for you to abhor genocide, demanding that other civilizations not partake of it, when you yourself benefit from numerous genocides.

    Yes, you benefit. You wouldn't even be here if your ancestors hadn't won their fights. When a culture or ethnicity or country fails to acquire and defend territory, it is doomed.

    Nazi soldiers were serving honorably. The winners dished out victor's justice. Note that Russian soldiers never had to face trial for slaughtering people in Poland -- winners don't face trial.

    Western civilization is facing yet another battle for survival. Western civilization is currently generous to a fault, allowing in large numbers of people who will never accept western values. It will end in genocide, and western civilization will lose unless it gets over the current aversion to genocide.