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Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:09 PM Dec 2014

Psychologist Admits He Waterboarded Al Qaeda Suspects: Report

Source: Reuters

Psychologist Admits He Waterboarded Al Qaeda Suspects: Report
Reuters
Posted: 12/15/2014 4:17 pm EST Updated: 19 minutes ago

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - One of the chief architects of the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation program has admitted in a media interview for the first time that he waterboarded terrorism suspects, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

James Mitchell, a former U.S. Air Force psychologist, confirmed some of the specific details in a Senate committee report released last week and defended the practices, saying that valuable intelligence was obtained despite investigators' conclusion to the contrary.

"Yes, I waterboarded KSM," Mitchell told the Internet-based global television news outlet VICE News, referring to Mohammed, whose interrogation was described in brutal detail in the report and which has been deemed torture by human rights groups.

"I was part of a larger team that waterboarded a small number of detainees," Mitchell said in the interview posted Monday.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/james-mitchell-waterboarding_n_6329702.html

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Psychologist Admits He Waterboarded Al Qaeda Suspects: Report (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP
Another war criminal admits his crime. Conviction should be easy now. on point Dec 2014 #1
All the criminals openly admit their crimes, yet they laugh at us trying to prosecute them....it is Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #9
Yeah but he didn't smoke pot mindwalker_i Dec 2014 #17
One would think. nt Javaman Dec 2014 #20
If someone took the law into their own hands for this guy, I wouldn't shed a tear. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2014 #2
It would be a real education seeing if he could take what he's been dishing out. n/t Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #7
His tone seems to be one of pride, not contrition JDDavis Dec 2014 #3
K&R DeSwiss Dec 2014 #4
We can still hope! n/t Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #5
So where's this valuable intelligence? progressoid Dec 2014 #6
That psychologist needs to see a psychiatrist, geez. He has one effed up mind. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #8
So is he going to be the patsy for the rest of the Bush Crime Syndicate? RoccoR5955 Dec 2014 #10
A book deal. None are going to do time. They will all get pardons. nm rhett o rick Dec 2014 #11
Guy should have his license revoked rpannier Dec 2014 #12
Which professional organizations are going to revoke the licenses of those who did this? Hekate Dec 2014 #13
Back in the Bush days, there was a push to have this guy sanctioned dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #14
This might just be the tipping-point, especially if petitions are launched at the organizations. Hekate Dec 2014 #16
I hope you are right, Hekate. nt brer cat Dec 2014 #15
As a professional (so-called) zentrum Dec 2014 #18
They tried to throw him out and for some reason it did not happen. Sunlei Dec 2014 #23
Disgusting blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #19
Now get the MDs. Octafish Dec 2014 #21
who set-up the 'for profit' torture Corp for this one Ghoul? WE paid this contractor 80+ million Sunlei Dec 2014 #22

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
9. All the criminals openly admit their crimes, yet they laugh at us trying to prosecute them....it is
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:41 PM
Dec 2014

outrageous how the mass media deflects and bobs and weaves away from the central facts...torture was done systematically by the secret police of the worlds largest militarized state.

Scary to everyone in the world, except for one country.

 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
3. His tone seems to be one of pride, not contrition
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:20 PM
Dec 2014

What a sick puppy, and to think he had the prez's and vice prez's and defense secy's blessings.

Water boarding him would be too nice for this guy.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
10. So is he going to be the patsy for the rest of the Bush Crime Syndicate?
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:48 PM
Dec 2014

Is he going to do time, while the rest of them go free?
I wonder what's in it for him.

rpannier

(24,328 posts)
12. Guy should have his license revoked
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:08 PM
Dec 2014

Though he wouldn't be hurt by it
He'd get a cushy deal as part of fox's medical team

Hekate

(90,556 posts)
13. Which professional organizations are going to revoke the licenses of those who did this?
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:26 PM
Dec 2014

We have lawyers who approved it.
Psychologists who designed and participated in it.
Medical doctors and nurses who stood by, sanctioning it with their presence.

Who will be first to revoke their respective licenses to practice?

I don't think I'm hearing crickets -- more like a slow gathering of the necessary moral outrage. I hope I'm right.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
14. Back in the Bush days, there was a push to have this guy sanctioned
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:49 PM
Dec 2014

by whatever Association gave him a license
IF he ever had a license
and they refused to do so.

Thereby diminishing the value of every license of every member of theOrganization.

Hekate

(90,556 posts)
16. This might just be the tipping-point, especially if petitions are launched at the organizations.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:52 PM
Dec 2014
In the end, public opinion does matter.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
18. As a professional (so-called)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 09:10 PM
Dec 2014

....he ought to be thrown out of the American Psychological Association or whatever outfit gives him his license. He can be de-licensed as a start.

You have to take an exam every year or so on ethics to renew. The entire profession needs to drum him out or it's a black mark on all of them.

Maybe this alone can at least get him fired from his position in the Air Force.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
21. Now get the MDs.
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:19 AM
Dec 2014
It's good to know who really believes the Hippocratic Oath.

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea, and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.

I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirement, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master's children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.

With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.

Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will get no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.

Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.

I will not cut for the stone, but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.

Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.

Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.

If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate![4]

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
22. who set-up the 'for profit' torture Corp for this one Ghoul? WE paid this contractor 80+ million
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:28 AM
Dec 2014

That's where Trillions of Americans Federal funds went, to Ghouls like this.

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