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#Torture : Voici les techniques d’interrogatoires « poussés » de la CIA - La Libre
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Ce procès mené par l’ACLU, la grande organisation américaine de défense des libertés sera le premier sur les méthodes de torture utilisées par les autorités américaines dans la « guerre contre la terreur ». Il vise deux psychologues, James Mitchell et Bruce Jessen, recrutés par la CIA en 2002 pour concevoir et aider à mener des interrogatoires sur des suspects capturés en Afghanistan et ailleurs.

Les deux hommes ont reçu un montant de 80 millions de dollars pour leur travail , notamment les interrogatoires de Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, le cerveau des attentats du 11 septembre et de Abu Zubaydah, un autre haut responsable d’Al Qaïda. L’ACLU affirme que MM. Jessen et Mitchell sont responsables et ont profité financièrement de tortures illégales à l’encontre des trois plaignants : le Tanzanien Suaniman Abdullah Salim, le Libyen Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud et l’Afghan Gul Rahman. Les deux premiers ont été libérés après plusieurs années de détention, alors que Gul Rahman est mort d’hypothermie dans une cellule de la CIA en novembre 2002, après ce que l’ACLU a décrit comme deux semaines de « torture brutale ».

Deux psychologues seront jugés pour les méthodes de torture de la CIA après le 11-Septembre

▻http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2017/08/08/deux-psychologues-seront-juges-pour-les-methodes-de-torture-de-la-ci

James Mitchell et Bruce Jessen avaient encouragé l’utilisation de méthodes de torture comme la simulation de noyade, la faim ou le fait d’attacher les détenus dans des positions douloureuses.

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Deux psychologues qui ont aidé à concevoir le programme d’interrogatoire de la CIA après le 11-Septembre seront jugés en septembre pour avoir encouragé l’utilisation de méthodes de torture comme la simulation de noyade (waterboarding), la faim ou le fait d’attacher les détenus dans des positions douloureuses. Un tribunal fédéral de l’Etat de Washington a autorisé lundi 7 août la tenue d’un procès au nom de trois anciens prisonniers, dont l’un est mort dans une prison de la CIA à la suite d’interrogatoires particulièrement violents.

Ce procès mené par l’ACLU, la grande organisation américaine de défense des libertés, sera le premier sur les méthodes de torture utilisées par les autorités américaines dans la « guerre contre la terreur ». Le tribunal a rejeté les tentatives du gouvernement américain d’obtenir un règlement négocié pour empêcher un procès public, arguant de la nécessité de protéger des renseignements classifiés.

Les deux psychologues, James Mitchell et Bruce Jessen, avaient été recrutés par la CIA en 2002 pour concevoir et aider à mener des interrogatoires sur des suspects capturés en Afghanistan et ailleurs. Les deux hommes ont reçu un montant de 80 millions de dollars (68 millions d’euros) pour leur travail, notamment les interrogatoires de Khalid Cheikh Mohammed, le cerveau des attentats du 11-Septembre, et d’Abou Zoubaydah, un autre haut responsable d’Al-Qaida.

Physicians for Human Rights - Nuremberg Betrayed: Human Experimentation and the CIA Torture Program
▻http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/nuremberg-betrayed-humanex.html

PHR researchers show that #CIA contract psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen created a research program in which health professionals designed and applied torture techniques and collected data on torture’s effects. This constitutes one of the gravest breaches of medical ethics by U.S. health personnel since the #Nuremberg Code was developed

#psychologues #tortures #Guantanamo #États-Unis

Foreign Policy Centre: Publications / Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy

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Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy
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Adam Hug (Ed.)

June 2016

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Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy examines the concerns across Europe around the democratic legitimacy of EU institutions and the European project as whole. It looks at how the debate about EU democratic legitimacy fits within the broader context of a crisis of institutions at both the national and global levels, particularly in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The publication explores the mechanisms through which EU institutions seek to gain democratic legitimacy and how they try to engage the public, comparing and contrasting with other organisations at the national and international levels. It places the debate around European democratic legitimacy within the context of the UK referendum on EU membership, as well as the fallout from the Greek debt crisis. It sets out ideas for potential improvements in how the EU operates to increase its democratic legitimacy and accountability but recognises that some of the challenges will persist irrespective of efforts to reform.

This publication contains contributions from: Dr Jim Buller, University of York; Professor Damian Chalmers, LSE; Oli Henman, Civicus; Dr Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds; Adam Hug (ed.), Foreign Policy Centre; Professor James Mitchell, University of Edinburgh; Dr Marina Prentoulis, UEA; Adriaan Schout and Hedwich van der Bij, Clingendael; and Dr Matthew Wood, University of Sheffield.This publication is supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK Call for Proposals for civil society organisations 2015-16.

#europe

The Government’s Unprecedented Position in #CIA #Torture Lawsuit Is Very Good News
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/governments-unprecedented-position-cia-torture-lawsuit-very-good-news

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

CIA torture report is a ’load of hooey’, according to CIA’s torture adviser
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More than a decade has passed since Dr James Mitchell, together with Dr Bruce Jessen, began a programme of “enhanced” interrogation of suspected al-Qaeda militants that this week drew international condemnation. As is now well-documented, the private company set up by the doctors, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, held a contract with the CIA which netted them $81m (£51.5m) between 2002 and 2009.

#CIA Paid #Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million
▻http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/cia-paid-torture-teachers-more-80-million-n264756

The contract was for more than $180 million, but the contractors had only received $81 million when their contract was terminated in 2009.

Although the committee identified the contractors via pseudonyms, NBC News has previously identified them as Mitchell, Jessen & Associates, a Spokane, Washington, company run by two psychologists, Dr. John “Bruce” Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell, who had both previously worked with the U.S. Air Force.

The report states that when they were hired the two did not have “specialized knowledge of al Qaeda, a background in counterterrorism or any relevant cultural or linguistic experience.”

#perversion #santé #psychologue #argent

James Mitchell: ’I’m just a guy who got asked to do something for his country’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/james-mitchell-cia-torture-interview

Psychologist who designed CIA’s post-9/11 torture program insists he has nothing to apologise for – and attacks ’people with a Jack Bauer mentality who don’t understand how intel works’