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The Government’s Unprecedented Position in #CIA #Torture Lawsuit Is Very Good News
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Those responsible for the CIA torture program have never had to face their victims’ claims in a U.S. court because the government has always shielded the perpetrators. Until now.

Next week, three victims of the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program are taking a critical and unprecedented step in seeking accountability from the men who devised their torture. On April 22, a federal court in Spokane, Washington, will hear the ACLU’s argument on behalf of Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman. They have sued James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the psychologists who teamed up with the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s torture program, which ensnared at least 119 men from its inception in 2002 until it was shuttered in 2008.

Here’s How Two Psychologists Allegedly Tortured Three Former CIA Prisoners - BuzzFeed News
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing two psychologists who allegedly devised and ran the CIA’s torture program as detailed in last year’s scathing Senate report on the agency’s detention and interrogation policies during the Bush administration.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of three former CIA prisoners who were tortured using methods recommended by James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two U.S. psychologists who were paid millions of dollars by the CIA to oversee, and at times, personally participate in torture sessions of detainees.

The ACLU is representing three men, Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud — who are now free — and Gul Rahman, who was allegedly tortured to death in his cell in 2002. The U.S. never accused or charged any of the three men with a crime, the ACLU said in a press release.

The lawsuit seeks damages from the two psychologists for their “commission of torture, cruel, inhuman treatment” as well as “nonconsensual human experimentation and war crimes.”

« Entre 2005 et 2009, les services secrets américains ont fait appel à deux anciens psychologues de l’armée de l’air pour mettre au point de nouvelles méthodes de tortures.

Près de 80 millions de dollars. C’est ce qu’auraient coûté à la CIA les conseils de deux Américains, anciens psychologues de l’armée de l’air. » slate