Democracy Now! 7-30 Rorschach and Awe, Psychologists & Interrogations

TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:
With Amy Goodman

* Rorschach and Awe: As Opposition Grows Over the APA's Policy Allowing Psychologists to Take Part in Military Interrogations, Vanity Fair Exposes How Two Psychologists Shaped the CIA's Torture Methods *

Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban unravels the central role of two CIA-contracted psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in designing torture tactics for use on detainees held in secret CIA prisons around the world. Both worked in a classified military training program known as sere‹for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape‹which trains soldiers to endure captivity in enemy hands. Mitchell and Jessen reverse-engineered the tactics inflicted on sere trainees for use on detainees in the global war on terror. The C.I.A. put them in charge of training interrogators in the brutal techniques, including "waterboarding," at its network of "black sites."

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1416256

* Headlines for July 30, 2007 *

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- Bush Urges Congress to Rewrite FISA Act
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1416248