Antonio Marafioti - 20/12/2010 Source: Peace Reporter [Source tab]
Some former U.S. government officials revealed an agreement secrecy under which the CIA will pay legal Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen: the inventors of waterboarding. One form of torture.
Some former U.S. government officials have unveiled a secret agreement by which the CIA has undertaken to cover, $ 5 million, legal fees of the two inventors of waterboarding, a form of controlled drowning for the purposes of interrogation. A story that promises to bring a lot about U.S. citizens for two reasons. The first is that the Central Intelligence Agency financially support the defense of two psychologists, Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen , which more Once implemented that, to date, is considered a real form of torture . The second is that the money for the defense team of two contractors, are entirely public, and therefore also that segment of taxpayers who object to such brutal practices.
For them to give you even add insult, considering that Mitchell and Jessen benefit from a special promise of compensation "which is structured differently than the insurance clauses signed by CIA agents. Normally, the officers of the intelligence service are obliged to maintain insurance, from about $ 300 a year to receive in exchange for a maximum coverage of $ 1 million. Currently the agency is responsible to pay full premiums for most of its 007 even though, after the most acute phase of the struggle of former President George W. Bush against international terrorism, officials were forced to pay half the bill. None of this has touched the two psychologists who have obtained, although not simple agents, but consultants, a net coverage, paid only by the CIA and not by insurance equal to two and a half times that of a normal agent.
on their company, Mitchell, Jessen & Associates , how about some officials of the CIA and other companies, the Prosecutor is investigating the Department of Justice, John Durham that, in the coming weeks, you may request the opening of a criminal trial. The charge would be torture, since, in addition to having created the waterboarding, the Mitchell Jessen what would be involved in more than one case the method used to interrogate terrorist suspects being held in secret CIA prisons. The two psychologists have trained for years, thousands of military officers, teaching them to withstand the most severe interrogation techniques.
After September 11, 2001, the two managed, drawing on a lot of experience, to devise, and sell to the Pentagon, a program to insengnare to interrogate prisoners. The methods included bulging physical and psychological techniques, such as forcing the prisoner to nudity, forced to take painful positions to increase his level of stress, deprived of sleep and, of course, subject them to waterboarding. The technique, according to documents released by CIA officials, is to "tie a detainee to a bench alzandogli feet above his head. This is immobilized as the questioner puts a cloth over her mouth and nose of the prisoner, pouring water on cloth in a controlled manner. The flow of air - said the document - is limited to 20-40 seconds, and the technique produces a feeling of suffocation and drowning. "
Waterboarding, orderly and defended, for their admission, both former President Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney , was used in an excessive way, the two psychologists on different figures suspected of having links with al-Qaida. Only during the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , who confessed his involvement in the massacre of 11 September, waterboarding was used 183 times.
The tolerance of human physical is not more than twenty minutes per session.
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