Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Profile: The psychologist authors of U.S. torture



The New York Times has a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12psychs.html"an excellent article/a on career military psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the pair who reverse-engineered Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, or SERE, eventually leading to waterboarding and other torture.br /br /At the peak of their work, the pair was getting $2K/day, each from the CIA. And, doing things like chatting up and down Martin Seligman, the psychologist who discovered and researched the concept of “learned helplessness,” without telling him WHY they wanted to pick his brain.br /-END-div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-715789421565362889?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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