Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

• Psychologists who designed CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods to stand trial

  James Mitchell and John Jessen designed the interrogation methods and took part in sessions with CIA prisoners, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation.

  World

  Jan 27, 2017
  
• Trump says U.S. at disadvantage because of anti-torture laws

  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argues that banning torture techniques puts the U.S. at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic militants.

  Politics

  Mar 7, 2016
  
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• Trump wants to bring back waterboarding and ‘a lot worse’ but can he?

  Tough talk about torture is a guaranteed applause line for Donald Trump on the GOP presidential stump.

  Crime

  Feb 29, 2016
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• How designing a CIA torture program earned 2 men millions

  The names James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen don't show up at all in the 500-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA torture program, but they're definitely mentioned throughout it, according to multiple reports.

  World

  Dec 10, 2014
• Senate report: Harsh tactics didn’t net bin Laden

  After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played a key role in what was one of the spy agency's greatest successes.

  World

  Dec 10, 2014
• How the CIA tortured its guinea pig detainee Abu Zubaydah

  Abu Zubaydah was the first high-profile al-Qaida terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the first to vanish into the spy agency's secret prisons.

  Politics

  Dec 9, 2014