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Psychologists Who Developed CIA Torture Reach Secret Deal To Avoid Trial

The two psychologists credited with creating the CIA’s torture program have reached a confidential settlement with victims of the brutal techniques.

Although the ACLU celebrated the settlement, John Kiriakou, the former CIA analyst who went to prison for 23 months after exposing the torture program, says the psychologists settled to avoid further exposure. In an interview with The Real News, Kiriakou expressed his disappointment with the settlement. “First of all, the decision has been sealed so we don’t really know if justice has been served,” Kiriakou stated. “We don’t know what the terms of the agreement are, we don’t know if there is any kind of deterrent that has been written into the decision.” Kiriakou also noted that Mitchell and Jessen did not have to pay anything out of pocket for the trial because the CIA picked up the tab. The former CIA analyst also rightly noted that ultimately it was the American taxpayer who paid for both Mitchell and Jessen’s $81 million payment for creating the program and the cost of the trial against the men.

The psychologists may have been seeking to avoid accountability and transparency, but it’s also likely the men realized they might actually lose the trial. Earlier this month, as part of a court ruling, the judge wrote, “The evidence would support a finding Defendants designed the [enhanced interrogation techniques] to be used on detainees, and thus they clearly had knowledge they would be so used.”

Part of the reason the public is still in the dark about torture is because of the actions of Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, In 2005 he ordered the destruction of more than 90 videotapes that showed detainees undergoing waterboarding and other torture methods. When recently questioned about why he ordered the videos destroyed, Rodriguez offers nothing but a sad excuse. “It would make the CIA look bad, and almost, in my view, destroy the clandestine service because of it.” No regard to morality or even law, but rather, acting from what will or will not make the State and its spy agencies look good.

https:// govbanknotes.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/psychologists-who-developed-cia-torture-reach-secret-deal-to-avoid-trial/

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This is too perfectly organized as a means to put out dis-information, in my opinion, a means to distract from true subject content.

Departing Facebook Security Officer's Memo: "We Need To Be Willing To Pick Sides"

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In a brutally honest note about his departure, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos calls on his colleagues “to intentionally not collect data where possible” and listen to people when they say a feature is “creepy.”

In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook’s highest-ranking security official implored his colleagues to take responsibility for the social network’s failings amid the fallout of the most notable privacy scandal in the company's 14-year history.

Advocating for dramatic shifts in Facebook’s culture, Alex Stamos, the company’s outgoing chief security officer, sent a reflective, brutally honest note to employees on March 23 attributing the social network’s problems to “tens of thousands of small decisions made over the last decade.” The memo, which has not previously been circulated outside Facebook, is a rare look at some of the internal debate currently taking place over the company’s future direction and the growth-at-any-cost attitude that has driven it for years.

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https:// www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-alex-stamos-memo-cambridge-analytica-pick-sides