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The article I read was about two men, James Mitchel and John Jessen, who teamed up with the CIA to make more effective torture programs and techniques to use against captured civilians. The article was written on October 16, 2015. It tells about how these two men, who devoted their lives to teaching American soldiers to resist using forceful and abusive interrogation tactics, changed and developed a program for the United States. President Bush gave the two men and the CIA the right to test their experiment because he said they were not violating any foreign laws and the CIA got legal cover for the experiments they wanted to run. The CIA's goal with the new interrogation tactics was to make enemy hostiles feel helpless and scared and it is supposed to force information out of them. Some of the tactics they used included beatings, hanging the prisoners above ground just so they could barely breathe, putting them in painful positions for days, starving them, playing psychological games with their heads, and using Chinese water torture. On the patients they tried these interrogation tactics on they accomplished their goal. They made them give up all the information they knew and they left them feeling helpless and lost. Today many of the patients have life long psychological damage. They feel lost and helpless. The torture still had lasting effects on the way that they have to live their lives. Now both Mitchell and Jessen are facing charges for cruel, inhumane treatment, nonconsensual human torture, war crimes, and for violating humans rights. Many of the patients they tested on are dead today. They completely broke their will to live and they sanity and so many of them committed suicide, were tortured to death, or died from other severe affects caused by the torturing techniques. Other victims who are still alive still suffer from lasting physical and mental affects and will continue to suffer the rest of their lives.


 http://muckrakerfarm.com/2015/10/out-of-the-darkness-how-two-psychologists-teamed-up-with-the-cia-to-devise-a-torture-program-and-experiment-on-human-beings/