July 7, 1951 - James Elmer Mitchell
A psychologist by training, Mitchell translated theories about learned helplessness into operational practice, designing the "enhanced interrogation" program that the CIA applied to detainees in the years after September 11. The Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation later concluded the techniques produced no unique intelligence and that the program had been misrepresented to overseers. The $81 million contract his firm received made him among the most directly compensated architects of what critics and legal scholars have characterized as state-sanctioned torture.
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James Elmer Mitchell (born 1952) is an American psychologist and former member of the United States Air Force. From 2002, after his retirement from the military, to 2009, his company Mitchell Jessen and Associates received $81 million on contract from the CIA to carry out the interrogation of high value detainees, referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques".
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