The psychologist credited with devising the C.I.A.'s program of 'enhanced interrogation' during the war on terror defended his record at a pretrial hearing for the alleged masterminds of 9/11.
That report concluded that enhanced interrogation techniques used in this period, such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation over a"significant repetition of days," and forcing detainees to strip naked, were"not an effective means of acquiring intelligence."
James Mitchell, one of two psychologists who helped devise the CIA's interrogation program after the 2001 terrorist attacks, in Hollywood, Fla., July 5, 2017. Mitchell will be the first witness to describe the torture of detainees in the secret prisons in the trial of the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks.
On the first day of his testimony,"Mitchell identified [the then-top clandestine service official in the CIA] Jose Rodriguez as pushing the program," Xenakis said.
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