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Wrongly detained, some in blatant cases of mistaken identity
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/.../religion-cia-tort...Commonweal
8 hours ago - Religion in the CIA torture report ... a minimum of 20% of tortured detainees were wrongly detained, some in blatant cases of mistaken identity.
Some declassified details from so called "CIA Torture Report"
2. Those "rough" or "hard" takedowns involved CIA officers rushing into a detainee's cell, stripping him naked and running him up and down a long hall while slapping and punching him. "As they ran him along the corridor, a couple of times he fell and they dragged him through the dirt," the report says.
6. The CIA threatened the families of detainees. It used that prisoner's "fear for the well-being of his family to our benefit," according to the report, by "using 'vague threats' to create a 'mind virus.'" In another section, the report says "CIA officers also threatened at least three detainees with harm to their families -- to include threats to harm the children of a detainee, threats to sexually abuse the mother of a detainee and a threat to 'cut [a detainee's] mother's throat.'"
8. "At least five CIA detainees were subjected to 'rectal rehydration' or rectal feeding without documented medical necessity," the report said. More specifically, "Majid Khan's 'lunch tray' of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins was 'pureed' and rectally infused."
9. The CIA officers involved in the detention and interrogation program weren't the most savory bunch. The group "included individuals who, among other issues, had engaged in inappropriate detainee interrogations, had workplace anger management issues and had reportedly admitted to sexual assault," the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/cia-reports-shocking-passages/
And disgraced SWC appointed this Abu Ghraib "torture teacher" to White House position:
Friday, Mar 25, 2011 05:26 PM EDT
Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist is WH’s newest appointment
UPDATED: Meet the newest member of a White House Task Force on military families
Topics: Torture
Dr. Larry James
(Updated below with White House response)
One of the most intense scandals the field of psychology has faced over the last decade is the involvement of several of its members in enabling Bush’s worldwide torture regime. Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and break down detainees. At the center of that controversy was — and is — Dr. Larry James. James, a retired Army colonel, was the Chief Psychologist at Guantanamo in 2003, at the height of the abuses at that camp, and then served in the same position at Abu Ghraib during 2004.
Today, Dr. James circulated an excited email announcing, “with great pride,” that he has now been selected to serve on the “White House Task Force entitled Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of The Military Family.” In his new position, he will be meeting at the White House with Michelle Obama and other White House officials on Tuesday.
For his work at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Dr. James was the subject of two formal ethics complaints in the two states where he is licensed to practice: Louisiana and Ohio. Those complaints — 50 pages long and full of detailed and well-documented allegations — were filed by the International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, on behalf of veterans, mental health professionals and others. The complaints detailed how James “was the senior psychologist of the Guantánamo BSCT, a small but influential group of mental health professionals whose job it was to advise on and participate in the interrogations, and to help create an environment designed to break down prisoners.” Specifically:
During his tenure at the prison, boys and men were threatened with rape and death for themselves and their family members; sexually, culturally, and religiously humiliated; forced naked; deprived of sleep; subjected to sensory deprivation, over-stimulation, and extreme isolation; short-shackled into stress positions for hours; and physically assaulted. The evidence indicates that abuse of this kind was systemic, that BSCT health professionals played an integral role in its planning and practice. . . .
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/25/james_4/
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CIA Paid Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million
Army Psychologist Addresses Students at Colloquia
| November 17, 2009
Col. Larry C. James (ret.), dean of the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University, addressed Regent University's School of Psychology & Counseling (SPC) students on November 13, as part of the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) 2009-2010 Colloquia Series.
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom 
