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ACLU Files Suit Against Architects of CIA Torture Program

HeadlineOct 14, 2015

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the architects of the CIA torture program, accusing psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen of war crimes. Mitchell and Jessen reaped more than $80 million for designing torture techniques used by the the CIA. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two torture survivors and the family of a third man, Gul Rahman, who froze to death at a CIA black site in Afghanistan. ACLU attorney Dror Ladin announced the lawsuit Tuesday.

Dror Ladin: “There has been no accountability for these men. They have received no apologies. They’ve received no compensation. And Gul Rahman’s family has never even received his body. And so now that the Senate torture report that came out at the end of last year provided enormous details about Mitchell and Jessen’s role in the torture program, now is the time that our clients thought was right to try to seek justice and accountability for what Mitchell and Jessen did to them.”

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