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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 04:02 PM
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CIA torture for fun and profit?
CIA torture for fun and profit?

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/cia-torture-for-fun-and-profit/

There's an article in today's New York Times about Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, two military retirees and psychologists with no expertise on al-Qaeda, no foreign language skills, no experience in real interrogations, and with no relevant degrees ("...their Ph.D. dissertations were on high blood pressure and family therapy").

Nevertheless, these two seemingly managed to cash in on America's "global war on terror."

With little more than their psychology credentials and "an intimate knowledge of a brutal treatment regimen used decades ago by Chinese Communists," the pair, known as "Doc Mitchell" and "Doc Jessen" built "a thriving business that made millions of dollars selling interrogation and training services to the CIA," per the Times piece.
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