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posted by martyb on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.

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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:26AM (#547094)

    It's all well documented, however the document is highly secret... The 525-page summary (yeah, you read right) though is available.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture [wikipedia.org]

    If you haven't read it yet, do yourself and humanity a favor and do read it through. It's a real eye-opener.

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