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Date: July 30, 2017 02:17PM
Remember these guys, Mitchell and Jessen?
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1454144Excerpted from today's L.A. Times, p. A-12 (no, I don't have a link):
"Psychologists face trial for harsh CIA interrogations
"Suit over detainees mistreated in the war on terrorism is set to go before a jury.
"SEATTLE — A lawsuit brought by former detainees held at CIA 'black site' prisons overseas will indeed go to trial – the first such proceeding in the post-Sept. 11 era and one that aims to hold two civilian psychologists responsible for helping to develop harsh interrogation techniques…
"The defendants, former Air Force psychologists James Mitchell and John 'Bruce' Jessen, were hired by the CIA to design a program of 'enhanced interrogation' techniques used to force terrorism suspects to give up useful intelligence.
"Their methods included waterboarding, beatings, forced rectal 'feeding' and experiments with glaring lights and incessant music.
"Mitchell and Jessen earned $81 million through a series of government contracts from 2003 until… 2009. The pair contended that because they were contractors, the blame for any failures belonged to their employer, the CIA…
"…In an effort Friday to get the case dismissed, the defendants compared their situation to that of World War II manufacturers who supplied the Nazis with poison gas, and who later argued they weren't responsible for how the gas was used.
"ACLU attorney Dror Ladin noted that the postwar Nuremberg tribunals found that private contractors were in fact responsible if they provided 'unlawful means' that allowed them to profit from war crimes.
"'In the same case that Mitchell and Jessen cite,' Ladin said, 'the military tribunal found the owner of a chemical company that sold Zyklon B to the Nazis guilty, even though only the Nazis had final say on which prisoners would be gassed.'
"The trial [is] set for Sept. 5."
Oops. Moral of the story: When going to trial, never compare yourselves to Nazi-allied war profiteers. Asshats.