Psychologists Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell shaped the CIA's interrogation program of al Qaeda detainees, including Abu Zubaydah. Both refused to speak to ABC News citing confidentiality agreements with the U.S. government. A re-enactment of waterboarding is pictured here. (ABC News Photo Illustration)From ABC News:
Despite Red Flags, CIA Followed Interrogation Program of Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell.
There is new scrutiny into the role of two psychologists who made an estimated $1,000 a day to oversee and advise the CIA's interrogation of captured terrorists.
Both men, doctors Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, assured the CIA that their methods could 'break' a terrorist and would be safe, according to two former high-ranking CIA officials and a collection of recently declassified Bush administration memos.
The major problem, according to those who knew the two retired military psychologists, was that neither Mitchell nor Jessen had ever conducted a real interrogation, or been involved in an intelligence operation.
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My Comment: As predicted .... with the exception of only a few conservative bloggers and talk radio .... no outcry (like it was for Valerie Plame) on who outed these men.