October 13, 2015

Victims of CIA torture sue designers of program

Washington Post - Two former CIA prisoners and the family of another detainee who froze to death at a secret prison in Afghanistan have sued the architects of the spy agency’s detention and interrogation program.

The lawsuit was filed  in federal court in Spokane, Wash., against James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, a pair of psychologists who earned millions using untested, brutal techniques, such as waterboarding, on CIA prisoners.

The suit alleges that the CIA tortured Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud at a black site dubbed Salt Pit, exposing them to a regime that the psychologists had developed.

The men say they were subjected to extreme cold, darkness, noise and repeated beatings. They were also shoved into small confinement boxes, according to the lawsuit.

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