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Millionaire CIA Torture Psychologists to Face Trial

posted by martyb on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:28PM   
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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• Re:US Air Force "family therapists" Re:US Air Force "family therapists" (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 31 2017, @01:39AM (1 child)

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 31 2017, @01:39AM (#546922)

  I'd actually be more concerned if the only things on these guys' resumes were torture related - that's the kind of field you want to have a broad base in other realities if you're going to engage.

  Seriously folks, I taught Scuba Diving for a semester in college, doesn't mean I don't know how to do a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis on an electronic device.

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• Re:US Air Force "family therapists" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:57PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:57PM (#547246)

  Himmler studied agronomy.

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