psychologist Bruce Jessen

After Haspel arrived, a Saudi terror suspect named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was brought to the facility and subjected to water boarding at least three times, the Senate report said. CIA contract psychologist Bruce Jessen crafted a plan for the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on al-Nashiri, but a ...

In legal documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Mitchell's business partner, psychologist John Bruce Jessen, referred several times to the chief of base ... asked the CIA to declassify “pertinent agency documents related to Ms. Haspel's role” in the CIA torture program “in order to fully and fairly review her ...

A little over a year ago, to defend themselves in a lawsuit brought by three victims of torture in CIA black sites, James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen issued a subpoena to depose “Gina Doe, former Chief of Staff to Jose Rodriguez when he served as the Chief of the CIA's Clandestine Service and former ...

A little over a year ago, to defend themselves in a lawsuit brought by three victims of torture in CIA black sites, James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the architects of US enhanced interrogation techniques, issued a subpoena to depose “Gina Doe”. Legal documents identified her as “Gina Doe, former ...

CIA contract psychologist Bruce Jessen crafted a plan for the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on al-Nashiri, but a dispute developed over ... President Donald Trump has expressed support for water boarding and other torture techniques, but his top national security officials have testified that ...

Last year, Haspel's name came up during a civil lawsuit in Spokane, Washington, filed by three men who said they suffered waterboarding, beatings and sleep deprivation in the CIA interrogation program developed by former Spokane psychologists James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. Lawyers for the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel's colleagues describe her as a seasoned veteran who would lead the CIA with integrity. ... they suffered waterboarding, beatings and sleep deprivation in the CIA interrogation program developed by former Spokane psychologists James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen.

Trump's pick for CIA tied to torture lawsuit involving Spokane psychologists ... to question Gina Haspel and another CIA official, James Cotsana, about whether they supervised the interrogation of three terrorism suspects using a program developed by James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen of Spokane.

Spokane psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen may not be done talking to attorneys about waterboarding. ... approval from U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush to interview Mitchell and Jessen about their observations during the torture of Abu Zubaydah at a CIA black site in Poland.

Lawyers for the three plaintiffs in the suit, filed in 2015 in Federal District Court in Spokane, Wash., said the former prisoners were tortured at secret C.I.A. detention sites. The settlement with the psychologists, Dr. Bruce Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell, came after a judge last month urged resolving the case ...

James Mitchell, the former Spokane psychologist who designed and participated in the CIA's water boarding torture of terrorism suspects, was interviewed ... Report on Intelligence found ample evidence that Spokane psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell provided the CIA the methods for torture, ...

Three plaintiffs have alleged they were detained and tortured in secret CIA prisons in the wake of 9/11, using techniques devised by psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen. Lawyers for the plaintiffs claim the former CIA contractors “aided and abetted the torture and other cruel, inhuman and ...

ACLU attorney Dror Ladin argues Friday before U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush. Ladin is representing three men who argue they were subjected to torture that was designed and sometimes carried out by Spokane psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell. (Illustration by Molly Quinn).

Senate's torture investigation was politically motivated, according to Spokane psychologists in waterboarding lawsuit ... Spokane psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell claim a U.S. Senate investigation into CIA torture interrogations was politically motivated and want the findings barred from an ...

... terrorism suspects in secret C.I.A. prisons, John Bruce Jessen, a former military psychologist, expressed ambivalence about the program. He described himself and a fellow military psychologist, James Mitchell, as reluctant participants in using the techniques, some of which are widely viewed as torture, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A psychologist who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation methods in the war on terror has said his participation in the program that involved torturing suspects caused him "great, soulful torment." The comments were in videotaped depositions of Bruce Jessen ahead of a Sept.

When Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell urged their bosses in the CIA to halt the waterboarding of a terrorism suspect in 2002, they were pressured to ... one of two former Fairchild Air Force Base psychologists who helped develop and implement the post-9/11 torture program from their offices in downtown ...