Thursday, June 21, 2007

Torture

This is one more example of how Bu$hco has corrupted more than the three branches of government. In fact, I would argue that since Reagan's active enabling of racism, among other things, that the conservatives have undermined just about everything that made this country great. The ReThugs have pushed the conversation so far right, that what looks like the center is nothing more than diluted fascism, yes I said fascism, & I mean it.

According to congressional sources and mental healthcare professionals knowledgeable about the secret program who spoke with Salon, two CIA-employed psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, were at the center of the program, which likely violated the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners. The two are currently under investigation: Salon has learned that Daniel Dell’Orto, the principal deputy general counsel at the Department of Defense, sent a “document preservation” order on May 15 to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top Pentagon officials forbidding the destruction of any document mentioning Mitchell and Jessen or their psychological consulting firm, Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, based in Spokane, Wash. Dell’Orto’s order was in response to a May 1 request from Sen. Carl Levin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who is investigating the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody.

This excerpt is from here. Anybody in Spokane know these guys? I wonder just what kind of therapy they provide. I wonder if they were helping Jim West? We may never know, although given the above info, curious minds are connecting the dots.




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