GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — The man viewed as the architect of the CIA’s enhanced interrogations program said in a war court hearing that former CIA director John Brennan and other Obama appointees at the spy agency threw him "under the bus" by allowing him to be used by former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Dr. James Mitchell, 68, a former Air Force survival school psychologist who worked for the CIA as an interrogator in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, leveled the accusation during hearings for the alleged plotters of the hijackings that left nearly 3,000 people dead.
During more than a week's testimony, the CIA psychologist was grilled by David Nevin, an attorney for self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The lawyer asked about a 2015 lawsuit filed against Mitchell and his business partner, Dr. Bruce Jessen, by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three former CIA black site detainees. Those plaintiffs were Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohammed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Obaid Ullah as a representative of Gul Rahman, who died in agency custody in November 2002.
“You got sued by several people who were tortured wrongly,” Nevin said on Tuesday.
“I disagree with your characterization that it was torture,” Mitchell replied, adding that he sought medical attention for Rahman, an Afghan held at a black site dubbed “Location 2,” believed to be in Afghanistan.
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