[Vision2020] In Torture Denial?

[bear at moscow.com]

Ted,

Great article from 2007, sorry I missed it. I checked my day-timer, and it
appears that I was in Sarajevo Bosnia at the time.


Wayne




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> *I posted information to Vision2020 regarding the Spokane CIA
> "interrogation" psychologists in July, 2007.  My e-mail records show zero
> responses on the list to this information, though they might be
> incomplete.
> At the bottom I forward one of my July, 2007 posts on this subject, where
> electroshock is mentioned as a tactic, a tactic that oddly receives scant
> attention in media discussions of torture against detainees.  There is a
> tremendous focus on water boarding, and I think I know in part why:  it
> seems less horrendous than the idea of hooking someone up to an electrical
> device to run electricity through their body.  The use of drugs to
> "enhance"
> interrogation is another tactic that receives scant media attention.  We
> are
> often not being exposed in the media to the worst of the treatment that
> detainees received.*
> **
> *Ted Moffett*
> **
> *bear at moscow.com* bear at moscow.com
> <vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20In%20Torture%20Denial%3F&In-Reply-To=>
>
> *Thu Apr 30 19:02:58 PDT 2009*
>
> And for those of you suffering over the torture discussions that have been
> going on here, and agree that torture isn't illegal, there are two
> "renowned" psychologists up in Spokane that can help. Their expertise is
> what the system was based on.....and the legal opinions of the Bush
> government!
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7471217&page=1
>
>
> Anyone need a ride up there?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 14, 2007 6:08 PM
> Subject: CIA Psychologists In Spokane:June 29, 2007 Spokesman Reivew
> To: Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>
> Friday, June 29, 2007 Spokesman Review, front page headline:
>
> Psychologists Linked To CIA
>
> Congress probes role in controversial interrogations
>
> by Karen Dorn Steele and Bill Morlin, Staff writers
>
> Article on page A1 continuing on page A10, covering over a full half page
> of
> text (no ads on A10), a long article for a newspaper like the Spokesman
> Review.
>
> The article states that an article "last week" in online
> Salon.com<http://salon.com/>identified
> psychologists James E. Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen as developers of
> a CIAinterrogation program used with terror suspects.  The article
> claims that
> Mitchell advocated the use of electroshock during an interrogation,
> according to a 2005 New Yorker article.
>
> Quotes from the article:
>
> "Mitchell Jessen & Associates lists its corporate headquarters as the
> American Legion Building, 108 N. Washington, in downtown Spokane."
>
> "At the company's Spokane office, light jazz plays in the public hallway
> outside Suite 205.  Behind a large dark wooden door, there is no one to
> greet visitors who step inside a small entrance room, illuminated with
> bright track lighting.  A wall phone is available to call a secretary."
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