by Micow11 in todayilearned [–] centristhorse 0 points 1 point 2 points 1 year ago (0 children) The article described Mitchell's participation in a CIA interrogation of a high-value prisoner in March 2002 at an undisclosed location elsewhere -- presumably a secret CIA prison known as a "black site" -- where Mitchell urged harsh techniques that would break down the prisoner's psychological defenses, creating a feeling of "helplessness." Former Congressman: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Can Be Valuable Robert Siegel talks to Peter "Pete" Hoekstra, who was chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004-2007. . The ACLU filed a lawsuit against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two psychologists contracted by the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s post-9/11 torture program. The nomination of longtime CIA officer Gina Haspel to be head of the CIA. Abuse of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the CIA's network of secret 'rendition' prisons involves tweaking techniques described in Kubark (Fair 2007, Gordon and Fleisher 2006, Mackey and Miller 2004.New concerns are emerging about the use of social science in torture. And this movie is a quietly dramatic, certainly important, elegant piece of work. Torture is defined as “the act of causing severe physical pain as a form of punishment or as a way to force someone to do or say something.” The origin of torture dates back to 530 A.D. when Roman jurists used torturous methods to obtain the truth. CIA employees “are among the best and brightest our nation has to offer,” CIA Director John Brennan said last week. CIA interrogators asked Rahim a variety of questions during these interrogations, seeking information about the current location of senior al-Qa'ida leaders, which he did not provide. Detainees on CIA torture flights, he told parliament in 2008, had in fact landed on the British-owned territory of Diego Garcia. Now Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA officer who reportedly oversaw a secret prison where an alleged terrorist was waterboarded, is President Donald Trump’s pick to become the next director of the agency — and some of her supporters are again citing the military’s use of waterboarding to defend her. Jessen, one of the two contract psychologists who designed the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques”, spent 10 days in the secret prison near … So says John Kiriakou, the first former… Torture: T he action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. Quick Fact: Jim Carrey had to be taught CIA torture coping techniques The CIA’s records also contradict the evidence the agency provided of some “thwarted” terrorist attacks and the capture of suspects, which the CIA linked to the use of these enhanced techniques. In August 2002, at somewhere called Detention Site Green, CIA personnel found the torture “visually and psychologically very uncomfortable . It also detailed the CIA torture techniques used on al-Qaeda suspects - including sleep deprivation for 180 hours in shackled, stress positions and waterboarding to the point of unconsciousness. TIL that Jim Carrey had to be taught CIA torture coping techniques to endure the make-up process for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Hayden said that he carefully examined the use of so-called enhanced-interrogation techniques when he took over the CIA job. . The techniques are known to have been used in other cases as well. Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since the techniques … The suit, filed in October 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, was on behalf of three of the program’s victims. report and the APA as supporting torture while APA and its leaders maintained its position that it did not. The topic of mind control is elaborate, multifaceted, and multi layered. Torture’s path was well paved by the time, in July 2002, Gonzalez and his colleagues convened in a White House office to consider CIA torture techniques and how to put a foundation of “legality” under them. International conventions prohibit the former. After a six-week pause, the torture resumed, with a sleep deprivation session that lasted a total of 138.5 hours, from November 2 until November 8, 2007. The story of the CIA torture programme is a powerful one.