The Story of Mitchell Jessen & Associates: How a Team of Psychologists in Spokane, WA, Helped Develop the CIA's Torture Techniques

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Mark Benjamin,Katherine Eban,Karen Dorn Steele | Apr. 21, 2009 (Special Report)

Mitchell Jessen & Associates, is named after the two military psychologists who founded the company, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. Beginning in 2002, the CIA hired the psychologists to train interrogators in brutal techniques, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation and pain. We speak with three journalists who have closely followed the story. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Apr 21, 2009 - 3:05 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 22, 2009

The story investigates the slippery ethical slope of psychologists working to perfect illegal and immoral torture techniques. The journalism of investigating this firm is given coverage.

Arguably, Nuremberg principles should apply to these people and this firm.

the fact that they landed on this without any data to justify its use, without any proof of effectiveness, is really what was remarkable to me in my reporting. More »

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 by Bruce T Brown - Apr. 25, 2009

Unfortunately Psychologist used thier training to be torturers.

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