The ACLU is filiing a suit on behalf of a survivorr of the torture of the Bush administration.

[JDPriestly]

Here is a video

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu

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.

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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 compensatorhttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-acluy damages of at least $75,000.

The suit calls the torture program a “joint criminal enterprise” and a “war crime” in which the CIA, Mitchell and Jessen colluded and from which Mitchell and Jessen financially profited.

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“This lawsuit is different from past ones because public government documents now provide exhaustive details on the CIA torture program, and they identify the people who were tortured and how it happened. The government has long abused the ‘state secrets’ privilege to prevent accountability for torture but at this stage, any claim that the torture of our clients is a state secret would be absurd.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu

[choie]

1. well, it's about time...

n/t

[JDPriestly]

2. Enough information had to be released into the public domain.

They could not get past security barriers to bring the issues up even though we all know pretty much what happened. That's my guess judging from the article. A lot of material was classified. I think that various victims have tried to sue but were not allowed to proceed with their cases.

Am I wrong about this? Anyone?

[zebonaut]

3. Hideous Torture; yielding not a shred of information; and bush still walks free