CIA torture architect • Interview: 'I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country'

[kpete]

CIA torture architect breaks silence to defend 'enhanced interrogation'



• Interview:

James Mitchell: '"I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country by people at the highest level of government, and I did the best that I could."

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'

The committee’s report found that the interrogation techniques devised by Mitchell, a retired air force psychologist, were far more brutal than disclosed at the time, and did not yield useful intelligence. These included waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation for days at a time, confinement in a box and being slammed into walls.

But Mitchell, who was reported to have personally waterboarded accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, remains unrepentant. “The people on the ground did the best they could with the way they understood the law at the time,” he said. “You can't ask someone to put their life on the line and think and make a decision without the benefit of hindsight and then eviscerate them in the press 10 years later.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/james-mitchell-cia-torture-interview

[mylye2222]

1. This denier disgraced and discraces his country whit that ugly statement.

Does he never heard of what a WAR CRIME is?

He just deserved to be tried!

[rhett o rick]

2. How can we as a country move forward until these war criminals are prosecuted to the fullest

extent of the law? "with the way they understood the law" is bullshit. I have no sympathy for these torturers.

[grasswire]

3. John Yoo is the architect of "understood the law" bullshit.

The question has never been answered: Is/was John Yoo a Moonie?

[rhett o rick]

4. He should be tried as a war criminal. nm

[99Forever]

5. Personally...

... I wouldn't accept an "apology" from a lowlife piece of vermin such as you. You should be locked in a dark hole and forgotten about.

[sarisataka]

6. Albert Speer made a similar claim

but was still imprisoned for 20 years. Though Speer is an indelible stain on the soul of humanity even he could admit that what was done was wrong.

Let's give Mitchell 20 to think over his actions.

[L0oniX]

7. These sick sociopath war and torture loving maniacs go unpunished for 10 years...

and this dirty filthy used gigantic asscarrot thinks there's a time limit for evisceration? WTF ...and would they dare say they did and are doing it for ...we the people???