Lawsuit Against CIA Psychologists Who Compared Themselves to Nazi Gas Manufacturer Headed to Trial. A lawsuit against two former Air Force psychologists who developed the CIA’s post- September 1. James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, appears to be all set to go to trial after the defendants ignored repeated exhortations to settle—including from the judge. Mitchell and Jensen earned $8. CIA between 2. 00. L. A. Times reported.

Their legal team tried to blunt the lawsuit by claiming that as contractors, the two psychologists couldn’t be held legally responsible for developing the torture regime and the CIA should be held liable instead. The ACLU is suing Mitchell and Jensen on behalf of Abdullah Salim, Mohammed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Gul Rahman, all of whom were tortured using techniques designed by the duo. Rahman died after just two weeks in CIA custody of hypothermia when he was left in a cell at a facility in Afghanistan called the “Salt Pit” wearing just diapers.

A new report is accusing the American Psychological Association of secretly collaborating with the…Read more Read. The suit is just the latest consequence for mental health professionals who aided George W. Bush’s administration in medicalizing torture during the height of the US ground occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2. 01. 5, the American Psychological Association faced claims it collaborated in torture when it created an “A. P. A. ethics policy on national security interrogations” permitting its members to sit in on the sessions, allowing Justice Department lawyers to argue the interrogations were conducted under medical supervision. In one email, the New York Times reported, a CIA psychologist wrote to an APA official Mitchell and Jessen’s role was “doing special things to special people in special places.” That virtually everyone has urged the two to settle reflects the fact that in any just world, their defense would lose, big time. This week, the two defendants compared themselves to Joachim Drosihn, an employee of German chemical company Tesch & Stabenow who manufactured Zyklon B poison gas for Nazi death camps.

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Drohsin was acquitted on the grounds he lacked the ability to direct how Nazi authorities would use the gas. It is extraordinarily rare for anyone to willingly compare themselves to people who aided and abetted some of the worst crimes in human history,” ACLU attorney Dror Levin told the Daily Beast.[L. A. Times]Update: As noted by a commenter, the phrase “height of the War on Terror” is a misnomer, as wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan are still ongoing, and has been changed.

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He Said He Loves Us All'President Donald Trump on Saturday condemned violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, where thousands of neo- Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and other pieces of human trash gathered brandishing guns, torches, and Confederate flags. Watch Road Torent Free. But to the elation of Nazis online and armed militiamen in the streets of Charlottesville, Trump declined to distance the White House from the white hate groups who’d initially gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Instead, the president condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.”During brief remarks from his golf club in Bedminster, N.

J., the president made no mention of the white supremacists, some of whom wore t- shirts featuring quotes by Adolf Hitler or carried flags bearing symbols of Nazi Germany. It’s been going on for a long time in our country,” said Trump, apparently referencing the violence and disorder.

It’s not Donald Trump, it’s not Barack Obama.” Amid the chaos of a canceled “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia attended by white …Read more Read. Many Americans were waiting to hear one thing from the president, a strong and explicit rebuke of white supremacy and symbols of hate being paraded down American streets. But he never said it. Watch Becoming Bond Online Hulu on this page. And that didn’t go unnoticed by his racist supporters.“Trump comments were good,” wrote the Daily Stormer, a leading American neo- Nazi website associated with the so- called “alt- right” movement.

He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us,” it said.“He said he loves us all,” the site continued. No condemnation at all.”The Stormer also noted that, following his press conference, Trump dodged a question about white nationalists supporting him. When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room,” it said. Really, really good. God bless him.”Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke had appeared at the “Unite the Right” rally on Saturday prior to the violence erupting.

The purpose of the rally, he said, was to fulfill the promise of Donald Trump.“This represents a turning point for the people of this country,” Duke said. We are determined to take our country back, we’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump, and that’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back and that’s what we gotta do.”Dozens of people were injured and at least one protester, a woman, was killed on Saturday after a vehicle crashed into a marching group of counter- protesters who’d gathered to oppose the white supremacists. Watch Online Watch Azumi 2: Death Or Love Full Movie Online Film. The fatality was not mentioned by Trump in his live remarks, but he later tweeted condolences and offered “best regards” to those who were injured. Authorities are now reporting that two people died in a helicopter crash near Charlottesville this afternoon in connected with the rally, though it remains unclear how the deaths and the protests are linked.