>> 10 MONTHS AFTER THE SENATE RELEASED ITS REPORT ON THE
CIA'S ILLEGAL TORTURE PROGRAM, THE ACLU IS NOW GETTING
INVOLVED AND ARE PLANNING ON SUING TWO OF THE
EX-PSYCHOLOGIST WHO DESIGNED THE TORTURE PROGRAM.
ACCORDING TO THE REPORTS, THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION SUED TWO FORMER AIR FORCE PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO DESIGNED A
CIA PROGRAM THAT USED HARSH INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
SAYING "THE PAIR ENDORSED AND TAUGHT TORTURE TACTICS
UNDER THE GUISE OF SCIENCE."
THE SUIT ACCUSES THE PSYCHOLOGIST OF DEVELOPING
AN INTERROGATION PROGRAM THAT RELY ON BEATINGS, SLEEP
DEPRIVATION, STARVATION, WATERBOARDING AND OTHER
METHODS THAT CAUSE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING ON
PRISONERS IN CIA CUSTODY.
THE CIA PROMISED TO COVER AT LEAST $5 MILLION IN LEGAL
FEES FOR THE PSYCHOLOGIST IF THE PROGRAM RAN INTO TROUBLE.
KEEP IN MIND THIS PROGRAM WAS NOT ONLY ILLEGAL, IT WENT
AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.
IT ALSO DID NOT BRING IN ANY INTELLIGENCE THAT WAS USEFUL.
THEY WOULD TORTURE THESE PEOPLE, AND THEN GIVE THEM FALSE
INFORMATION OR UNUSEFUL INFORMATION.
IT WENT AGAINST OUR OWN LAWS.
>> WATERBOARDING WAS A CRIME THAT WE HAVE CONVICTED
PEOPLE OF IN THE PAST HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
IT'S ILLEGAL UNDER OUR LAWS.
LATER THEY WOULD CALL IT ENHANCED INTERROGATION, AND
THE MEDIA WOULD CALL IT ñ THEN NOTHING EVER CAME OF IT.
THEN OBAMA CAME INTO OFFICE AND SAID I DON'T LOOK
BACKWARDS, I LOOK FORWARD.
SO BY DEFINITION HE LET ALL OF THEM OFF THE HOOK.
IT WAS PREPOSTEROUS, AND CLEARLY BROKE THE LAW, LET ALONE
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT.
THE SUPREME COURT RULED ON THAT AS WELL, BUT IT DOESN'T
MATTER, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DECIDED THEY DIDN'T CARE.
HERE WE ARE, WE KNOW IT DIDN'T WORK BECAUSE THERE IS A
GIANT SET OF REPORTING AND THEY TRACED ALL THE EVIDENCE
BACK AND IT TURNS OUT WHATEVER EVIDENCE WE HAD WERE FROM
PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN AND GAVE US INFORMATION FOR MONEY.
IT WAS NOT THE PEOPLE WE TORTURED.
WHAT DID THEY USE AS A PAMPHLET FOR TORTURE?
SINCE THERE IS NO LEGAL PAMPHLET FOR TORTURE, THERE IS NO
MEDICAL JOURNAL THAT SAYS HERE IS HOW YOU SHOULD TORTURE
PEOPLE TO GET INFORMATION OUT, THEY WENT BACK TO THE 1960S.
BACK THEN THE CHINESE, THE COMMUNIST CHINESE, USED TO
TEACH THIS METHOD TO THE VIETNAMESE TO TORTURE US.
THEY USED IT ON OUR SOLDIERS.
BACK THEN IT WAS THE MOST
REPREHENSIBLE, VILE THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO.
DICK CHENEY LOOKED AT IT AND THOUGHT, PERFECT.
>>THESE WERE METHODS THAT WERE ALSO TESTED ON DOGS IN THE
1960S.
THEY BASICALLY MADE THE CLAIM THAT THESE METHODS WORKED
ON DOGS BECAUSE IT MADE THEM MORE PASSIVE, COMPLACENT,
AND AS A RESULT THEY WANTED TO USE IT ON HUMANS.
THE PSYCHOLOGIST MADE UPWARDS OF $81 MILLION.
>> REMEMBER THIS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, THE CHINESE KNEW
THEY WEREN'T GOING TO GET REAL INFORMATION.
THEY WERE TORTURING TO GET FALSE CONFESSIONS.
THEY WANTED PEOPLE LIKE JOHN MCCAIN WHO WAS CAPTURED IN
VIETNAM TO SAY AMERICA IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL,
CAPITALISM IS WRONG.
THIS IS ALL FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES.
WHEN CHENEY PICKS UP THE MANUALS AND DOCTORS START APPLYING
IT, HE KNOWS IT IS THE ILLICIT FALSE CONFESSIONS.
WHY DOES HE WANT THAT?
BECAUSE HE WANTS SOMEONE TO SAY THAT IT WAS ALL THAT WHO DID
9/11.
HE NEEDS A FALSE CONFESSION.
THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE TORTURE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR, IT IS BEYOND REPREHENSIBLE TO
PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS.
IT VIOLATES EVERY MEDICAL CODE IN THE BOOK, LET ALONE THE LAW.
$81 MILLION CAN GET YOU BEYOND THAT.
UNDERSTAND THAT THESE GUYS DID NOT DO IT JUST BECAUSE THEY
WERE PATRIOTS, IT WAS DESIGNED FOR FALSE CONFESSIONS AND
THEY GOT PAID $81 MILLION.
THEY STARTED A COMPANY, AND HIRED ANOTHER 11
GUYS THAT ALSO HAD CONTRACTS WITH THE GOVERNMENT TO
PERFORM THESE EXPERIMENTS ON PEOPLE.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES ñ
IF YOU KEEP SHOCKING DOGS RANDOMLY, AS WE DID TO
THESE DETAINEES, THE DOGS JUST LIE DOWN AND TAKE IT
BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO AVOID IT.
IT'S TOTALLY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
ANYONE WHO HAS TAKEN PSYCH 101 KNOWS THIS.
THE DOCTORS KNEW THAT THE HUMANS WERE GOING TO BE SUBJECTED
TO UNCONTROLLABLE PAIN AND THAT THE PAIN WOULD LEAD
TO LEARNED HELPLESSNESS.
IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR WHO MADE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY
WORKING ON A TORTURE PROGRAM WHERE YOU KNEW AND INTENDED
TO INFLICT UNCONTROLLABLE PAIN, SHOULD YOU BE SUED?
HELL YEAH.
SHOULD THEY TAKE EVERY NICKEL OF THAT AWAY FROM YOU?
HELL YEAH.
THAT IS NOT EVEN AN OPEN QUESTION.
THESE PEOPLE SIGNED UP AND DID IT FOR A PROFIT.
WHAT THEY DID WAS UNCONSCIONABLE.