Psychologists accused of ‘criminal enterprise’ with CIA over torture
Two former detainees and the family of a third who died in custody filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the American psychologists who designed the CIA’s torture techniques in the first legal action to rely on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the government’s interrogation program.
The plaintiffs accused James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen of torture, cruel and degrading punishment, war crimes and conducting an “experimental torture program” as part of a “joint criminal enterprise” with the nation’s top intelligence agency.
The pair earned more than $80 million for developing a set of brutal interrogation methods, including simulated drowning known as water-boarding, beatings, starvation and confinement in “coffin-like boxes,” for supervising their use on detainees in secret overseas CIA prisons and for personally applying them to detainees, according to the suit.
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