Report: Two Psychologists Responsible for Devising CIA Torture Methods –Former military officers were paid by the CIA to oversee the waterboarding techniques used against high-profile prisoners 30 Apr 2009 Two psychologists are responsible for designing the CIA’s program of waterboarding suspected terrorists and for assuring the government the program was safe, according to an ABC News report. Former military officers Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell had an “important role in developing what became the CIA’s torture program,” Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the ACLU, told ABC News… Associates say Jessen and Mitchell were paid up to $1,000 a day by the CIA to oversee the techniques used against high-profile prisoners to extract information in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/30/report-psychologists-responsible-devising-cia-torture-program/

The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations 30 Apr 2009 As the secrets about the CIA’s torture techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the frequency and severity of their use… and a new focus on two private contractors who were apparently directing the brutal sessions that President Obama calls torture. According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe [?!?] by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, together founded Mitchell Jessen and Associates.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7471217