{"id":51134,"date":"2014-12-15T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=51134"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:11","slug":"the-architect-of-the-cias-enhanced-interrogation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/the-architect-of-the-cias-enhanced-interrogation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Architect of the CIA&#8217;s Enhanced Interrogation Program [a.k.a. torture]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Dec 10, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>James Mitchell has signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and was unable to discuss his alleged role in the agency&#8217;s enhanced interrogation program, but <\/em>VICE News<em> met up with him in suburban Florida to discuss the Senate&#8217;s report and one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror. This is the first time Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MmNUi0itl-8#t=592<br \/>\n<strong>The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a blistering, 500-page report on the CIA\u2019s controversial detention and interrogation program, a document that committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said represents the most significant oversight effort in the history of the US Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of \u201chigh-value detainees\u201d held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The committee reviewed more than 6 million pages of top-secret CIA documents and found that the architect of the interrogation program was a retired Air Force psychologist named James Mitchell, an agency contractor who \u2014 according to news reports \u2014 personally waterboarded alleged 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Senate report does not identify Mitchell by name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Read &#8220;Community Outreach \u2014 Not &#8216;Enhanced Interrogation&#8217; \u2014 Might Be the Best Way to Stop Terror Attacks\u201d &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1yzJMMh\" >http:\/\/bit.ly\/1yzJMMh<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read \u201cWhat $300 Million Bought the CIA&#8217;s &#8216;Detention and Interrogation\u2019 Program\u201d &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Byh30p\" >http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Byh30p<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read \u201cSenate Torture Report Finds the CIA Was Less Effective and More Brutal Than Anyone Knew\u201c &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/165G0n5\" >http:\/\/bit.ly\/165G0n5<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read &#8220;UN Official Wants US Administrators Involved in Torture to Be Prosecuted\u201d &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1D9qy87\" >http:\/\/bit.ly\/1D9qy87<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 10, 2014 &#8211; This is the first time James Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}