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CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-who-designed-infamous-program/Image of Ali Shallal al-Qaisi being tortured
CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program
Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian
13 Oct 2015 at 08:23 ET
Survivors of Central Intelligence Agency torture have sued the contractor psychologists who designed one of the most infamous programs of the post-9/11 era.
In an extraordinary step, psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen now face a federal lawsuit for their role in convincing the CIA to subject terror suspects to mock drowning, painful bodily contortions, sleep and dietary deprivation and other methods long rejected by much of the world as torture.
In practice, CIA torture meant disappearances, mock executions, anal penetration performed under cover of rehydration and at least one man who froze to death, according to a landmark Senate report last year. Versions of the techniques migrated from the CIAs undocumented prisons, known as black sites, to US military usage at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq .
On behalf of torture survivors Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, as well as a representative of the estate of Gul Rahman who froze to death in a CIA black site in Afghanistan the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the suit against Mitchell and Jessen on Tuesday in a federal court in Washington state, where the two currently reside. They seek compensatory damages of at least $75,000.
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CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Oct 2015
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. I am so surprised this has not been done before this.
Wish there were a way to sue the CIA and Gov't, too. esp. Bush and Cheney and Yoo.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)2. Ignorance
These two Doctors knew as much about modern effective and proven practices of interrogation and intelligence gathering as the below average forth grader.
They were f'in imbeciles! And cruel and callous besides!
-90% Jimmy
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)3. This will be a fun lawsuit to watch