The article also mentions the guy, James E. Mitchell, a former military psychologist, who was the architect of the CIA's harsh interrogation plan.
Here's an interesting detail on Mitchell supplied by a star FBI agent Ali Soufan:
But Mitchell, says the former operative, "had no experience whatsoever in Islamic extremism and ideology of al Qaeda." According to the former government official, Mitchell "never interrogated a person in his entire life and he came up with some crazy theories that anybody who's a professional in the agency or in the FBI, all of us agreed at the time that this guy is a quack."This would not be the first time the Bush Administration relied on a person without qualifications to run a pivotal position, and as usual, we get to all pay the price. He probably passed their Evangelical Christian test or showed his Republican voting records to get the job.
Faced with Mitchell's failed and illegal torture techniques, Soufan blew the whistle and told his superiors at FBI headquarters. Soufan intends to tell the Senate on Wednesday that he "couldn't even dream that the United States would do something like that."
Click here to see Mitchell refusing to talk to ABC News.
Source: ABC
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