Googling seems to turn up no indication that this is in the works, though I would have assumed whoever’s in charge of licensing psychologists would be jumping at the chance to disown these two.
(The two named people are the ones who were paid $81 million to advise the CIA on how to torture people.)
Am I wrong to think that professional ethics were seriously breached in this case?
I’ve been wondering about this as well.
It looks like there was a complaint made about Mitchell (and others) but it went nowhere.
“Here’s $81 million. You can never work in this field again.”
I’d sure like to know exactly who decided their expertise was worth $81 million. Didn’t their checks have to be signed by someone?
I don’t understand how they weren’t stripped of their licenses long ago.
Assuming we can’t torture them, revoking their licenses is among the least of things we should do.
Can we just ask them why they did it using enhanced methods of asking?
Oh. Texas. Makes sense, then.
$ 81 millions. I had no clue torturing people paid that well.
Couldn’t they have hired qualified immigrant workers for cheap instead?
As per a recent IMHO thread, that’s when you regret there isn’t a god so that some people would have their comeuppance.
To elaborate on what blue infinity posted – From today’s LA Times:
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Joseph Margulies, a Chicago lawyer who represented Zubaydah, tried to get Mitchell’s and Jessen’s psychologist licenses revoked after their role was first revealed several years ago. He filed petitions in Texas and Idaho, where they had obtained their licenses.
In a phone interview, Margulies said he was unsuccessful, in part, because he could not produce a client who had been harmed. Most who underwent the “enhanced” interrogations remain imprisoned on the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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That seems overpriced to me. When is a consultation fee in eight figures?
ETA: I wonder if they were in fact paid that much on the expectation that they would never be able to work legitimately again.