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CIA rehired, then fired, contractors involved in torture
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Weeks after President Barack Obama took office, the Central Intelligence Agency renewed a contract with a firm that helped orchestrate the torture of American-held detainees during the Bush Administration, The New Yorker revealed Sunday.
Two months later, according to the magazine, the agency fired them.
The contractors’ firings came in April, around the time the Senate Armed Services Committee fingered the role of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen in developing “countermeasures to defeat” detainees’ resistance in interrogations. It raises questions of whether the terminations only came after the contractors’ role was exposed.
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“Mitchell and Jessen, who run the firm, had worked on a Pentagon program that taught U.S. service members how to survive harsh enemy interrogation methods,” veteran Washington Post intelligence reporter Walter Pincus wrote Monday. “They relied on elements of that training in proposing an interrogation program for the CIA. It included methods such as sleep deprivation and other actions based on “theories of ‘learned helplessness,’” according to the New Yorker.
The New Yorker’s Jane Meyer wrote: “In April, [Obama CIA Director Leon] Panetta (above right) fired all the C.I.A.’s contract interrogators, including the former military psychologists who appear to have designed the most brutal interrogation techniques: James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. The two men, who ran a consulting company, Mitchell, Jessen & Associates, had recommended that interrogators apply to detainees theories of “learned helplessness” that were based on experiments with abused dogs. The firm’s principals reportedly billed the agency a thousand dollars a day for their services. “We saved some money in the deal, too!” Panetta said. (Remarkably, a month after Obama took office the C.I.A. had signed a fresh contract with the firm.)”
Panetta told Mayer he “didn’t support these methods that were used, or the legal justification for why they did it.”
Remarkably, Panetta also claims in the article that he “at one time” supported a truth commission to investigate Bush administration abuses — but that he reversed his position after President Obama indicated he wouldn’t support such a move.
He “didn’t want to spend a lot of time dealing with the past and what mistakes were made,” Mayer writes.
“Most of the individuals who managed the secret interrogation program have since left the agency,” she adds, “though CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes, whom Panetta told senators in February would be his “full partner,” held at least a nominal role in oversight of the program.”
Read Mayer’s full New Yorker story here
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June 15th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I wonder if they hired Angelina Jolie as the hitman / torturer… and then fired her once she was exposed and WANTED?
June 15th, 2009 at 11:44 am
You’re never helpless; only broken or dead. You make your choice.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Infowars had posted an article about these contractors when the story broke, revealing their identity. There was video that awas put up showing the two guys being stopped by reporters. Maybe that video should be re-posted with this article.
nader paul kucinich gravel Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:57 am
CIA got something caught in the wringer again…
Whistleblowers outnumber the guilty.
liars or truthers
federal reserve
aipac
911
June 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
They really tried to fine qualified contractor’s but these guys know the job so,your hired.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
You mean the ‘turd in the punch bowl?’
June 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
It’s all theatrics… May the ignorant masses gain the strength to read between the lines of mainstream propaganda.
Really, the deception is SO obvious… one need only to shed the fear of Truth and think for him/herself… but DAMN they’ve done a helluva job synethesizing fear and encouraging thoughtlessness. It’s like they’ve made people afraid to think.
So tragic…
Become a Souldier in the Information War!
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June 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Gee, I guess this means Blackwater is back on the payroll.
As if they ever left.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
ME.
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Reactions?
comment Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
…indeed a deadly symbol…and it means to all who can see, f- u- …
tuff old man Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Symbol have meaning and this one has badddddddddddd intent
Brave New World Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Satanic handsymbols make me sad.
HIPPIEHATER Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Metalllll! lol…
June 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
isn’t about David Icke — I agree he’s a kook and there’s no reason why he should be on AJ’s show. He belongs on Coast to Coast.
Sometimes I think AJ does crazy shit just to ’stay safe’ by being marginal.
GMacD Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Even though they back each other up on the very same news stories and they both speak of the same force that’s blinding us all, right?
Geoph Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
You should research his writings.
Ike was describing to days world in the90s.
So far as I can tell most everything he said is spot on.
That being said I can’t ignore or call him a nut
for his views on “lizard people”.
So far I can’t find DEFINITIVE proof one way or the other.
Face it just maybe that “turd in the punchbowl” is
really not a turd at all, maybe it’s a Babe Ruth.
ME.
comment Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
…amen…
vickie Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
You are entitiled to your opinion but I just wanted to add that David Icke is a brilliant man.
Do you think all the people that are showing up to see him now are kooks? Thats sad because he has been telling the world what has been happening for many years now along with Michael Tsarsion and so many others. Its not whether you believe in aliens or not, its what and who is running our world. Unless people see the whole picture, which I’m sure Alex does by now by having David on, they will miss the complete story
Pay attention to your soul is all David is trying to say. Look at the whole picture
steve Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Yes they are all kooks. There are millions of kooks who would prefer to deny the existence of God, in favor of believing in little green men or 4th dimensional lizards. Because it means they can continue to believe in something external to this world, but not claim responsibility for their own actions. Its a cowardly way to justify ones fall from grace and sinful life. Its a willingness to remain enslaved to sin rather than accept the freedom offered by Christ. Its just another false religion.
NatureBoy Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
David Icke is the most respected and the #1 lecturer in the freedom-liberty movement. he sells out wherever he goes to talk, and his books have sold millions- where he predicts the 1984 orwellian future and has been right about everything he says in them-nothing but the truth
he is beyond brilliant and is a hero of mine for all the great work he has done in his amazing and interesting life
he is also 100% correct in his reptilian bloodline theories. reptilian shape-shifters are REAL. and they rule this world and have since the beginning of time
heres the proof. David Icke is RIGHT so shut the fuck up about it and get over it. hes smarter than you and hes always right and that bugs stupid amercians..too bad, deal with it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
God Bless you Mr. David Icke. thankyou for all your insightful thoughts and masterful intellect over the years, you have completely opened my mind and thought me there is much more out there than what we can just see with our eyes. i have all your books and dvds and your book “Children of the Matrix“ explains your reptilian theories beautifully with hard cold evidence to all the close minded simpletons out there, who are still living in a box and cant comprehend the 4th and 5th dimensions out there
the only “kooks“ are the people who think ali baba and the 19 theives took down the twin towers the 1969 NASA moon landing was real, and that global warming is real
the truth is out there
davidicke.com
June 15th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
So by this thought,you know, “didn’t want to spend a lot of time dealing with the past and what mistakes were made,” That thought. If someone robs a bank and shoots a clerk the police should concentrate on how to not let the bank be robbed again and not worry about the criminals who robbed and murdered the clerk shouldn’t really be pursued. Right?
"ren Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
that about sums it up
June 15th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Yeah, that sounds like something criminals would do !
June 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Yeeaaahh, Jones why don’t you go ahead and come in on Saturday…we’ve had to let some people go and we need to play a little catch up.
Oh, I almost forgot….I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in Sunday too……Thanx !
June 15th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Excuses, Excuses.
We are not buying it!!
Think they would decide not to prosecute the 70 year old woman who had done some activist attacks on a animal laboratory in the 70’s??
Nope, they threw the book at her.
Think they let the 80 year old Nazi guard avoid deportation to be prosecuted recently??
Nope, they deported his butt.
It is obvious you forget what you want to. And you remember what you want to.
They all are exposed for their tactics so just like the photos.
Nothing needed to be seen to find guilt.
I don’t need to see the body to prosecute a murderer.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
you goyisher kop hekdish bist meshugeh ! shmendrick shay-gets put at stop to the kibosh stop the kibbitz Alex vild mensch, zol zein mit mazel Alex …
comment Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
…translation, please…
June 15th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
…this is totally off topic but at least i’m not quoting bible verses…i’m listening live to alex and david icke discussing the deliberate predatory torture/sacrifice of the human spirit by those who think that by usury they have godlike control of human consciousness…either focus your energies on artificial divisions (like the conflict in the truth movement) and fall prey to dark forces or become a warrior and seek out the truth behind the teleprompter NEWS…do not be sidetracked by those who seek to divide us…and your children are learning from your example…the “youth brigade” is a direct attack on the sanctity of the human family…the “flu shot” is a direct assault on the wondrous mechanism of the human body…in speaking up we will discover that there are many more who love than those who have sold their souls…democracy anyone ??? …constitution anyone ???
June 15th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7X24_vOWwU
June 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
AUDIT THE PRESIDENT.
He’s not a president, but a puppet.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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June 15th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
If America lost the war in Iraq then everyone would say torture is O.K. Any Army that kills people is going to be seen as a bully, so if the bully takes the time to save some of the people, then that is a good thing.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:26 am
CIA Emperials Drug,s Torture,Police States,NWO,Mind Control,and recruticing Nazsists Genocides
of second war wolrd
Death of CIA
end the CIA
END Satanists DEVIL of PLANET
June 16th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Alex makes usual reference to Anderson Cooper as an “Astor”. He is actually a Vanderbilt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper .
Brave New World Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:46 am
Anderson Cooper is CIA?
leatherG Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 9:00 am
yes, yes he was/is
June 21st, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Well what do you expect, if the NWO has a good torture chamber orerator, you do not want to loose him, you’d have to break in a new one.
I heard about 5 American soldiers, 4 held an Arab man’s head tightly, and pried his eye open, then the 5 th man, got a cigarette butt red hot, and burned the arab man-s eyeball out.
Skills like that are learned… if you run a torture chamber, you do not want to loose a man like that…