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James Elmer Mitchell (born 1952) is an American psychologist and former member of the United States Air Force.From 2002, after his retirement from the military, to 2009, his company Mitchell Jessen and Associates received $81 million on contract from the CIA to carry out the torture of detainees, referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques" that resulted in little credible information.
West coast, Navy SERE Insignia. The authorized "enhanced interrogation" (the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German "Verschärfte Vernehmung []", meaning "intensified interrogation", used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller [73]) was based on work done by James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen in the Air Force's Survival Evasion Resistance Escape ...
SERE training camp at Fort Bragg.Captain Michael Kearns, Psychologist Bruce Jessen (right) John Bruce Jessen (born July 28, 1949) [1] is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees [2] and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former CIA contractors who designed the harsh interrogation program used after the Sept. 11 attacks are being summoned to testify before the military tribunal at the U.S ...
The U.S.' ban on waterboarding and other forms of torture is 'political correctness,' according to James Mitchell, a key figure behind the CIA program.
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Corruption-Fighting Contractors Rescued and Allegedly Detained and Tortured According to the complaint filed against former Defense Secretary ...
The two CIA contractors who developed the "enhanced interrogation techniques" (John "Bruce" Jessen and James Mitchell, who are referred to as "Hammond Dunbar" and "Grayson Swigert" in the report, respectively), received US$ 81 million for their services, out of an original contract worth more than US$ 180 million.
When the CIA interrogation team arrived a week or two later than the FBI team, [10] they concluded that Abu Zubaydah was holding back information and that harsher techniques were necessary. [5] [7] [9] The CIA team was led by CIA contractor and former Air Force psychologist James Elmer Mitchell.