Profile of Torture-Contractors James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen |
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| By: JohnEly Wednesday May 13, 2009 8:43 am | |
Profile of torture-contractors James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, at Mitchell Jessen & Associates, responsible for the SERE-inspired torture program.
These are the private contractors, following the Spiegel journalists, which go unmentioned by name in Soufan’s testimony today to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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” A source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirms that Pelosi was told in February 2003 by her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, that waterboarding was actually used on CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah.
Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi’s spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
This source says Pelosi didn’t object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it — only her aide had been told. “
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI…..index.html
The der Spiegel article was well put together, no doubt partly in reliance on Marcy’s good work, though it doesn’t credit her. It is more critical and direct than most US reporting, other than that found here. It’s refreshing that a daily as prominent as der Spiegel is connecting the dots and informing its public (in both German and English).
Thinking about Nancy P.
Was it Michael Sheehy alone that was at the briefing where there was a
‘virtual tour’ of the ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques, as the WaPo reported.
What was this ‘virtual tour’ and who has the Power Point file?