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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, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:59PM (#547247)

    Most of us were quite angry about this, but seeing as we don't actually live in a free country there is nothing we could do. There were a lot of reasons to put this prison in another country, one big part of that is they didn't want protesters to line up outside and draw lots of attention to their activities.

    The fact that no one went to prison, except probably for these two patsies, is a clear indicator that the US is not a democracy in any but the most superficial ways. The people have power, but it is so distributed and scattered into political pockets that it is near impossible to get unified action.

    Blergh, I hope humanity steps back from the edge soon, this dystopia crap is becoming depressing.