Architects of CIA Torture Program Raked in $81 Million, Report Reveals
Source: Huffington Post
Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement its brutal interrogation program targeting detainees in the war on terror, according to the Senate torture report summary released Tuesday.
The contract psychologists are identified with pseudonyms -- Grayson Swigert and Hammond Dunbar -- like most of the individuals named in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA program. Published reports dating back to 2007, however, identify the two men as James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, both former members of the military.
For six years, starting in 2002, the two psychologists operated what amounted to a feedback loop of torture, coming up with new ways to inflict pain on detainees and then convincing CIA brass that the harsh tactics had worked.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)were in charge: "I know, let's put tubes up their butts and tell them we're feeding them...heh heh...heh heh...how about we tell them we're gonna kill them, heh heh...heh heh...let's put a bag over their heads and punch them, heh heh...heh heh..."
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)81 Million just to offer techniques to torture or interrogate ? At the very least they should be prosecuted for fraud and theft against the American people. These scumbags should pay a heavy price.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And it is up to date already.
Quite a pair they are...both retired military officers that got a contract with the government to torture people...the revolving door of the Military Industrial Complex.
elias49
(4,259 posts)Either way, they are wretched individuals.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The war machine, even if it does not win wars or actually do good things, is running as expected, as a profit machine.
Suppose for example Bush declared we were done after Hussein was out of power. That could have been at least a clear cut statement of purpose, but it would have made Cheney's friends at Halliburton squeal now that their blood fueled money machine was out of gas. Quagmires make money, period.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 10, 2014, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)
pardon some of the leaders in this mess. He wants it done because they are not going to go to trial but IF they are pardoned then is clear they committed crimes and were guilty of them. These two guys, W, and Cheney should be on this list. There may also be others - Hayden maybe also. He did a lot of the lying.
If we are not going to get trials then at least give them the label - the big C (for criminal) on their chest.
Wondering what the rest of you think?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)and that ain't NEVER gonna happen.
Obama offers a Presidential Pardon to these fuckers, and they reject it on the grounds that they don't actually NEED one, all it does is make the President look like he's grasping at straws at best, and trying to FORGIVE these crimes otherwise.
So since you asked, my answer is "Fuck That."
Let the pressure build. Eventually, it WILL hit Critical Mass, and SOMEONE will end up under Oath, and that guy will roll over on the next guy in line, and so on and so forth, all the way up the chain, and THEN we will get the Justice we actually need to heal.
Fred Drum
(293 posts)should be indicted
again, as a minimum, theft of honest service is a crime
someone needs to argue their service was honest
the whole $81 million dollar part is another story, something more than theft
i'll enjoy the public trial
colbertforpresident
(241 posts)and many people that call themselves Christians are supporting sadistic behavior.