For $1,000 a Day, Two Doctors Told CIA Waterboarding Was Safe and Effective

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Doctors Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1,000 a day by the CIA to serve as the architects of the agency’s secret interrogation program, during which they assured their bosses that waterboarding was not only safe, but also effective in extracting truthful information from suspected terrorists.

But neither Mitchell nor Jessen, both retired military psychologists, had ever conducted a real interrogation or been involved in an intelligence operation.

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