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Vestal: What happened to torture book?

As the lawyers, government, torturers and tortured wrestle over state secrets in the case against two psychologists who ran an $81 million torture enterprise from Spokane, an odd question has emerged. What happened to James Mitchell’s book? Mitchell, who worked alongside Bruce Jessen to develop and implement the Bush administration’s torture program, co-authored “Enhanced Interrogation,” which was slated by Crown Publishing for a May 10 release. ... But the book’s publication seems to have fallen into question. Crown no longer features “Enhanced Interrogation” on its website, as it once did. Searches on the site for the title and Mitchell’s name come up blank. Several online book-sellers still list the book with a publication date of May 10, but at least one notes that it has been “POSTPONED INDEFINITELY”/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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