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'In an era where the Army/CIA/Military routinely enlist the misuse of the medical field (psychiatry and medical doctors) to perpetrate particular techniques upon certain "terrorist" "detainees", is there any wonder they've succeeded in obscuring what constitutes torture?'
As Jane Mayer noted in her reporting and in The Dark Side, James Mitchell - a retired military psychologist who had worked for the CIA studying illegal torture methods and how to resist them, aka the SERE progam - was brought in by the CIA to head up the interrogation of Abu Zubayda.
