Two psychologists who helped design the CIA’s post-9/11 detainee interrogation program will stand trial in September for promoting the use of torture methods. Federal judges in Washington State late Monday ordered a lawsuit on behalf of three former detainees to go to a jury trial. They rejected efforts to force a settlement and prevent a […]
Torture Lawsuit Against Two CIA Psychologists Delays CIA Waterboarders’ Guantánamo Testimony…
Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture…
Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” …
Court Rules Former Top CIA Officials Must Be Deposed in Torture Psychologists Lawsuit…
A federal judge has ordered that former high-ranking CIA officials will have to sit for depositions in the lawsuit against the two psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA torture program…