the reason why mitchell and jessen were put in charge of this this terrible this important program was because the cia simply had no experience in this kind of thing nobody in the cia was trained in interrogation that's an f.b.i. job but the cia wanted to be the organization that did it themselves and it's because the cia blamed itself for the nine eleven attacks well because they had nobody internally who could do these interrogations they decided to hire mitchell and jessen at a cost of eighty one million dollars to come in and teach the cia how to torture people at the end of the day mitchell and jessen were the ones who flew out to the secret prison site overseas and actually carried out the torture themselves we know from the senate torture report for example that it was mitchell and jessen who were personally torturing these prisoners there was no discussion of ethics there was no discussion of morality and once the memo was signed by the president there was no discussion of legality it was it was as though the the cia was just winging it they were taking it one day at a time the

friday whether they have to stand trial over the so-called participation in acts of torture bruce jessen james mitchell created and personally tested told you methods forming a company that profited from the program that techniques were used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons when the country launched its war on terror following the nine eleven attacks but the twenty fourteen told to report released by a senate select committee found that some of those who were subjected to the brutal interrogations had not even been involved with extremist activities. the on. michael cans who worked with one of the psychologists and devised a program to help u.s. service personnel withstand torture he says his work on sale as it's known was used by one of the men to develop new and more brutal torture techniques but the cia's methods go far beyond it. the resistance to interrogation program we don't actually use the word torture in the training however there are torture techniques that are used to certain levels during the training this is all part of a program that's called sere s e r e

find out later today whether or not they'll stand trial over their participation in torture bruce jessen and james mitchell created personally tested methods they form the company that profited from the program the techniques we used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons following nine eleven but the twenty four team told europol released by a senate select committee found that some of those who subjected to the brutal interrogations. not even baby involved with extremist activities. meantime michael kearns who worked with one of those psychologists had devised a program to help u.s. servicemen withstand torture he says his work on sierra as it's known was used by one of those men then to develop new and more brutal torture techniques. the resistance to interrogation program we don't actually use the word torture in the training however there are torture techniques that are used to certain levels during the training this is all part of a program that's called sere s e r e survival evasion resistance to interrogation and escape so what we were doing were protecting those oper

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