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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 02:56 PM Dec 2014

Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges/Reuters

And, we the taxpayers paid this guy and his colleagues $80,000,000 for their "work".


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-usa-cia-torture-idUSKBN0JM24I20141211

One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects "took things out of context" and made false accusations. "It's a bunch of hooey," James Mitchell told Reuters from his home in Florida when asked for his response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings released on Tuesday. "Some of the things are just plain not true."

In a brief telephone interview, Mitchell declined to specify what he considered wrong in the report, citing a non-disclosure agreement with the government. But he suggested political bias was behind the report, which was put together by the committee's Democratic majority and which he said sought to "smear" those involved in the program.

The American Psychological Association called the details in the report "sickening and reprehensible" and while saying that Jessen and Mitchell were not members and therefore outside the reach of its disciplinary process, it said they should be held "fully accountable" for violations of human rights and laws.

The White House said the Justice Department had reviewed the interrogations and found no reason to indict anyone.

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