The CIA Protects It's Own

The CIA Secretly Agreed To Pay $5million To Shield The Architects Of Its Waterboarding Programme -- The Daily Mail

The CIA secretly agreed to pay over $5million in legal fees to shield two of it's employees accused of waterboarding terror suspects.

Psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are well-known to have invented the brutal interrogation programme, now classed in the US as torture.

But former U.S. intelligence officials said Mitchell and Jessen also repeatedly subjected terror suspects inside CIA-run secret prisons to waterboarding personally.

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Update: CIA Granted Waterboarders $5M Legal Shield -- CBS/AP

My Comment: This tells me that when the program was first set up, the "legal eagles" in the CIA were already concerned about legal issues and accountability long before it became public.

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