The funding was slipped through Congress with the support of key members (and this answers Bob’s question about Bob Inouye, who on Appropriations, was such a key figure).

Um, can we have another go at this?
* The Senator in question is *Daniel* Inouye.
* My question was about “whether or not, or how, Mitchell & Jessen’s efforts were (or were not) linked to Sen. Inouye’s office.” I guess what you’re doing here is implying that the fact that Inouye approved appropriations for M&J’s Little Torture Shop of Horrors implies that they were in cahoots. I hadn’t thought about that angle; I was looking for something more direct. But perhaps the funding thing constitutes implied support.

Bob in HI

Bob in HI

Cambone helped lead Feith’s Office of Special Plans. Cambone’s military assistant was right-wing Jesus-freak holy war General William Boykin. Boykin was former commander of Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, at the same time Mitchell was there on his last military assignment. Boykin was also named as a special supporter of a CIA behavioral scientist’s research into the psychological and physical effects of SERE training. (The latter will be topic of a special article to come.)

Cambone also, btw, oversaw the redrafting of the Army Field Manual in 05-06, in which he implanted in key sections, especially Appendix M, a version of the torture program, relying on isolation, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, creating and manipulation of fears, use of drugs, etc.

In essence, we have top administration officials, in conjunction with top Defense officials, top Pentagon officers (particularly in Special Forces, JPRA, and Joint Forces Command), and of course, CIA (primarily their covert ops division) implementing the torture program at the behest of “take the gloves off” Cheney. Bush possibly gave the initial order, or signed off on Cheney’s initiative. The funding was slipped through Congress with the support of key members (and this answers Bob’s question about Bob Inouye, who on Appropriations, was such a key figure).

did you catch how good ole crook Dusty Foggo worked on constructing black sites?

Mitchell seems to have done some research on or appli cation of a process called “critical incident stress debriefing” given immediately to those exposed to traumatic situations. It was a theory professed by another Mitchell…Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell, back in the I980’s. Recent research indicates that these short group debriefings have little effect in reducing PTSD.

Jessen has been associated with SERE for over a decade…as this paper indicates. It’s not clear who he was working under at that time (CIA, Pentagon, etc.) but it’s clear he either received an invite or knew about the conference. He presented a paper on precisely who survived and who “broke” during the torture interrogations of US forces in Vietnam, Korea and during WWII. It would be interesting to obtain this paper, cited in the article below. There may be classified (or declassified) papers by Jessen or Mitchell that may be obtainable through a FOIA request. Usually “researchers” follow their initial papers with similar research with an expanded field of subjects. He might have continued with research about state-directed torture on civilians…or non-state actors who took hostages for political propaganda or terror purposes. Things like the Argentinian or Central American torture of left-wing protesters or the Hezbollah hostages in Lebanon. If he was working with “allies” (e.g. those trained by the School of the Americas) he may have been able to access their records via the CIA.

Finding out such information may provide an interesting way of finding why Jessen and Mitchell were selected and who were their advocates.
http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/Ac…..imshaw.pdf

The Pentagon had its own office of legal counsel, and their own way of vetting the program. The SASC report is in large part about how that process went down.

My point is that it isn’t going to be easy to go up the ladder