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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: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 31 2017, @12:15AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 31 2017, @12:15AM (#546897) Homepage Journal

    I guess someone finally found the limits of that limited immunity crap. The cops have been testing those limits for awhile now.

    Seriously, I can't believe that Government is going to let this happen. Prosecute bad actors for treating brown men badly? Doesn't this open the doors for war crimes trials? Maybe the Abu Ghraib perpetrators (and some others) will be sent to the world court?

    There's got to be a lot more to this little teaser of a story . . .

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Monday July 31 2017, @12:47AM

    by Arik (4543) on Monday July 31 2017, @12:47AM (#546903) Journal
    Calm down, the judge just said they don't get to skip the trial. At least not on one particular theory.

    At least that's what it sounds like from the writeup. Which on examination doesn't cite a real source. So maybe he didn't even say that.

    But if he did, he's just saying the court has to put it back on the calendar, that's no guarantee trial will ever occur, let alone that they will be held responsible at the end of one.
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