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The Guardian
April 19, 2018
Gul Rahman's family, represented by his nephew Obaid Ullah, filed a lawsuit in 2015 alongside two surviving former Salt Pit prisoners against James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the two contract psychologists who designed the CIA's “enhanced interrogation program”. A settlement reached in thatÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
April 13, 2018
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the psychologists in 2015 on behalf of Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, who said they ... The lawsuit accused James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen of developing interrogation methods under a secret $160 million contract with the CIAÃâà...
HuffPost
March 29, 2018
The problem with waterboarding SERE students was that too many trainees broke, said James Mitchell, a psychologist who was deeply involved in SERE and later reverse-engineered it to develop the CIA's torture program. “We thought it was too effective,” Mitchell wrote in a 2016 book defending his role inÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 28, 2018
James Mitchell, a psychologist who helped the CIA develop the enhanced interrogation program, told BuzzFeed News that Rodriguez “did the right thing.” But in Congress and upper levels of the CIA and the Bush administration, officials were outraged, according to interviews and declassified CIA records.
NPR
August 17, 2017
Two psychologists who were paid more than $80 million by the CIA to develop "enhanced interrogation" techniques — which have been called torture — have settled a lawsuit brought by men who were detained. The list of brutal methods devised by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell for use by the U.S.Ãâà...
The Independent
August 7, 2017
James Mitchell (left) and Bruce Jessen (right) are accused in a lawsuit of being the designers of the CIA's interrogation programme ACLU ... following 9/11, a federal lawsuit against two psychologists accused of being architects of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] interrogation methods will proceed to trial.
New York Times
July 28, 2017
The suit is one of the few attempts to hold people accountable for harm caused by the Central Intelligence Agency's program in the years after the 2001 ... Lawyers for the former detainees accused the two defendants, the former military psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, “aided andÃâà...
New York Times
June 23, 2017
He described himself and a fellow military psychologist, James Mitchell, as reluctant participants in using the techniques, some of which are widely viewed ... Court in Spokane, Wash., was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of several former prisoners of the Central Intelligence Agency.
