CIA Interrogation Case Study

James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who created a CIA’s interrogation program, and they are being accuse for humans right violation and war crime. Both of the psychologist were U.S. Air Force trainers who teach the members of the military to resist interrogation if they get captured. The CIA paid 81 million dollars to the company Mitchell Jessen & Associates to help the interrogation program. The lawsuit is a behalf of the family of Gul Rahman, who die on the custody of the CIA; Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud were also held by CIA and released years later. The lawsuit was filed to the Washington’s state federal court. These three former prisoners said they were tortured in a secret prisons. The lawsuit …show more content…
According to the lawsuit and the report, Jessen and the employees of the CIA did had to do something with the interrogation. It also said, Rahman most likely die from hypothermia because he was forced to sit on concrete floor without pant and it also because the lack of food, water, and movement because of the short chaining. In the lawsuit it said that the family never got notifies about his death from the U.S. and they never got his body back. Salim was captured and taken to the slat pit sis in Afghanistan. There he was terribly torture, for example he was force to wear a diaper. The torture he went through was so bad that he still has flashbacks. Ben Soud was another former of the CIA prison and identified Mitchell for being in some his interrogations. He was put in cold water until a doctor says that his body temperature is too low for a human body. After he was release he was sent to Libya and sentenced him to prison for life however he was later freed. The interrogation program has been under investigation three times but they couldn’t prosecute because it would expose the classified information. Mitchell theorized that humans put in such harsh treatment they will talk or do whatever they want so the treatment