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turbinetree

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Mon May 20, 2019, 06:48 PM May 2019

Architects of post-9/11 CIA interrogation program to testify

Source: Associated Press

28 Minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former CIA contractors who designed the harsh interrogation program used after the Sept. 11 attacks are being summoned to testify before the military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center.

The government has approved a defense request to have James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen testify in the case against five men charged with helping to plan and assist the 2001 attacks.

The two psychologists are among a dozen approved witnesses listed in a letter sent Monday to the defense. They have never testified in public.

Mitchell and Jessen designed and implemented an interrogation program that included such abusive techniques as prolonged sleep deprivation, confinement in small, enclosed spaces and waterboarding.

They could testify as early as July in a pretrial hearing at the U.S. base.

Read more: https://apnews.com/56ee4398997c465d81635084098236cd



maybe they can bring in that professor sitting in a classroom at Berkley and have him testify about his BS paperwork that its just fine and dandy to torture people....................John Yoo..................... now working to get tenure, when he should be behind bars.....................................
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Architects of post-9/11 CIA interrogation program to testify (Original Post) turbinetree May 2019 OP
Absolutely agree. Evolve Dammit May 2019 #1
I also agree. They all belong behind bars. Solly Mack May 2019 #2
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