The Torturers Wanted to Stop, but the CIA Kept Going
An interrogator testified that even after prisoner Abu Zubaydah started cooperating, the waterboarding continued.
by Conor Friedersdorf
Jan 23, 2020
2 minutes
A psychologist who helped the CIA torture people told a chilling story this week at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where legal cases are proceeding against five defendants accused of murdering almost 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. James Mitchell, one of the architects and practitioners of waterboarding, still defends the interrogation method, which
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