{"id":179985,"date":"2017-08-17T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/17\/damn-i-was-hoping-for-a-trial-in-open-court\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:56:00","slug":"damn-i-was-hoping-for-a-trial-in-open-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/17\/damn-i-was-hoping-for-a-trial-in-open-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn! I was Hoping for a Trial in Open Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lawsuit agaisnt the CIA’s torture psychologists has been settled<\/a>, so the rest of us won’t find out what they did:

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A settlement in a lawsuit against two psychologists<\/a> who were paid tens of millions of dollars to design torture techniques used by the CIA in black-site prisons was announced on Thursday. The terms of the settlement were undisclosed. <\/span>
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Two of the plaintiffs in the case, Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ben Soud, were held and brutalized in 2003 in a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan<\/a> that prisoners called \u201cThe Darkness\u201d. Salim, who is Tanzanian, and Ben Soud, who is Libyan, were eventually released and are now living in their home countries with their families. <\/span>
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A third plaintiff is a young Afghan computer engineer whose uncle, Gul Rahman, was tortured to death in November 2002 in the same facility. <\/span>
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The three filed the lawsuit in October 2015 against James Mitchell and John \u201cBruce\u201d Jessen, contract psychologists who devised a menu of abusive interrogation methods and billed the CIA<\/a> between $75m and $81m. The plaintiffs sought damages from the men for allegedly aiding and abetting torture, non-consensual human experimentation and war crimes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may recall that these were the guys whose lawyers inaccurately claimed that the maker of Zyklon-B weren’t held liable for their aiding genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not happy.  Their misdeed should have been revealed to the world.<\/p>\n

Honestly, they should be spending the rest of their lives in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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