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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 06:19 PM Dec 2014

'Flat Wrong': Big-Bucks Torture Teacher Slams CIA Report

No, I don't agree with him. I think he belongs at the Hague.

One of two psychologists whose firm was paid $81 million to design the CIA's interrogation techniques for terror suspects is blasting a Senate report that criticized the program's brutality and effectiveness.

"I always sleep comfortably at night," James Mitchell told NBC News on Wednesday.

"I think the American people ought to know the men and women of the CIA and the armed services have given up their lives and their security to protect them. It's not always pretty," he added. "I wish this report had come out in a bipartisan way."

In an earlier interview with the Associated Press, Mitchell said Senate report's accusation that he and his partner did not have experience as interrogators or an understanding of Al Qaeda is "flat wrong." He said he understood the shocked reaction to the report's claims. "I would be upset by it too, if it were true," he said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/flat-wrong-big-bucks-torture-teacher-slams-cia-report-n265656

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'Flat Wrong': Big-Bucks Torture Teacher Slams CIA Report (Original Post) bemildred Dec 2014 OP

If he sleeps comfortably at night he's probably a sociopath. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2014 #1

He might even be a psychopath. They apparently 'enjoy' watching their KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #5

They say the guilty always sleep well. Solly Mack Dec 2014 #2

I think he will sleep less well now. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #3

Let's hope so. Solly Mack Dec 2014 #6

There will be people looking for him, just saying. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #7

Let's hope so. :) Solly Mack Dec 2014 #8

This man and the people who hired him need to be in prison. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2014 #4

Jail them all and let's see who starts to rat on the rest of the rats first. hifiguy Dec 2014 #9

He once said, I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country. Jefferson23 Dec 2014 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,755 posts)

1. If he sleeps comfortably at night he's probably a sociopath.

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 06:24 PM

Dec 2014

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)

5. He might even be a psychopath. They apparently 'enjoy' watching their

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 06:35 PM

Dec 2014

victims suffer, although I'm relying on a lay person's understandings of Anti-Social Personality Disorder and its distinction between psychopaths and 'emphasis sociopathic'.