Torturing Morality
The former Vice President has also said that the interrogation program was run by “highly trained professionals who understand their obligations under the law.” On the contrary, according to the Associated Press, the Agency had never done interrogations of this nature. Its first interrogators were put to work after two weeks of training. As previously reported, the torture program ”experts” were two psychologists from undistinguished schools with doctorates, respectively, in family counseling, and the use of dieting and exercise for controlling hypertension.
The CIA itself ordered the Inspector General’s report, and deserves credit for that; there were many officers who were disturbed by what the Agency was doing, and who anticipated what now could happen to discredit not only the Agency but the officials involved in what was done.