This week, the government released a long-awaited report on torture committed by the CIA
The report examines how agents brutally interrogated prisoners at black sites around the world in the aftermath of 9/11, and is a revealing look at the government officials who created the secret program and those who carried it out.
Mashable took a look at the key figures in the report and where they are now.
The psychologists
James Elmer Mitchell:
A retired Air Force psychologist, he is widely considered the architect of the torture program though the CIA has never officially recognized that. Mitchell himself is barred from talking in detail about his work for the CIA due to a non-disclosure agreement. (Mitchell is not mentioned by name in the report but observers believe that the pseudonym 'Grayson Swigert' refers to him.) Though he had no experience with interrogation of detainees, Mitchell reportedly oversaw the interrogation and torture of prisoners. After 2005, when the CIA outsourced most of its torture program, Mitchell and his fellow psychologist Bruce Jessen (see below) won the $181 million CIA contract. Read more...
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from MashableLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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