The reason that some critics have called it a giant psychological experiment is that U.S. military officials have deployed Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, or bscts, to help devise and implement interrogation strategies — a melding of psychology and military intelligence.
If we are really interested in nation-building in Iraq and other areas that are wracked by war, "doing unto others what you would have them do unto you " is a good thing to keep in mind when implementing any interrogation policy.
Conservatives and former George W Bush Administration officials have countered the flood of criticism in part by noting that the report is the product of Senate Democrats who did not interview the CIA officials responsible for designing and implementing the interrogation programme (why those interviews didn't happen is an open question).
Their request is related to a separate ongoing lawsuit in Spokane, Washington, where the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of three former CIA detainees, is suing Jessen and Mitchell for their alleged role in creating and implementing an interrogation program that used techniques now considered to be torture.
WASHINGTON -- Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement its brutal interrogation program targeting detainees in the war on terror, according to the Senate torture report summary released Tuesday.
This lack of experience was seen as bonus by the CIA as the two men were tasked with implementing a new form of interrogation.
"The CIA writ large wasn't responsible for developing, implementing and misrepresenting the truth about the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
A numerical model of the intensity based interrogation was implemented in order to validate the experimental results.
Database interrogation was implemented as follows: taxonomy—homo sapiens; database NCBInr; enzyme trypsin; fixed modification carbamidomethyl; variable modification oxidation of methionine residues; mass values monoisotopic; peptide mass tolerance 2 Da; peptide charge state 1+, 2+, and 3+.
Two caveats when implementing this design are that blocking these rays will cause a slight drop in overall interrogation intensity; as well the annulus of rays defined around the direction of ray 1 cannot be too large as side scatter from extreme rays will begin to interfere with those in the forward scatter direction.
