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• Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield

  December 17, 2010 in Nation/World The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding … 36

• Pair’s role in CIA coercion emerging

  July 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 In April 2002, as the terrorism suspect known as Abu Zubaida lay in a Bangkok hospital bed, top U.S. counterterrorism officials gathered at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., for a … 3

• CIA fires Spokane psychologists’ firm

  June 16, 2009 in City on Page A12 WASHINGTON – The CIA has fired a firm run by two Spokane psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding and other harsh methods to the agency’s interrogation techniques, according to a news …

• Amy Goodman: Torturers must be prosecuted

  April 23, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 George W. Bush insisted that the United States did not use torture. But the four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos released last week by the Obama administration’s Justice Department … 5

• Our View: Torture report illuminates American atrocity

  December 16, 2008 in Opinion on Page A13 To paraphrase one of the more ignominious comments from the Iraq war, “We go to war with the defense secretary we have, not the one that we want.” A bipartisan … 5

• Psychologist key in torture policy, report says

  December 12, 2008 in City on Page A1 Bruce Jessen, a senior military psychologist with offices in Spokane, played a key role in expanding the controversial use of torture against enemy combatants, according to the report released Thursday …

• Senators: Spokane psychologist key in expansion of torture

    December 11, 2008 in News, City Dr. Bruce Jessen, a senior military psychologist with offices in Spokane, had a key role in expanding the controversial use of torture against enemy combatants, according to a report released … 1

• Behind barbed wire

  August 29, 2007 in City on Page A1 On a picturesque bluff west of Spokane, a highly classified military facility – unknown to most in the region – carries out a worldwide mission from behind a coiled barbed-wire …

• Our view: Psychologists right

  August 27, 2007 in Opinion on Page A9 The American Psychological Association’s code of ethics begins by listing its general principles. This is the very first line: “Psychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work and take …

• Lessons in survival

  August 26, 2007 in City on Page A1 The Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, created in 1966 to train downed pilots to survive captivity during the Cold War, has a newly expanded mission in the ongoing …

• Group protests firm’s CIA ties

  August 24, 2007 in City on Page B2 More than two dozen people, some dressed in black hoods and orange jumpsuits to resemble Guantanamo detainees, gathered Thursday evening at Riverside and Washington to protest the work of a …

• Psychologists shun tactics

  August 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 SAN FRANCISCO – The American Psychological Association ruled Sunday that psychologists can no longer be associated with several interrogation techniques that have been used against terrorism detainees at U.S. facilities …

• Pyschologists debate their role in interrogations

  August 18, 2007 in City on Page B1 SAN FRANCISCO – Some psychologists’ participation in the development and use of harsh interrogation techniques at secret U.S. military detention centers around the globe is miring the annual meeting of …

• Expert has stake in cryptic local firm

  August 12, 2007 on Page A1 The former president of the American Psychological Association is a partner in a Spokane-based firm linked to the CIA’s reported use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists at secret …

• Psychologists’ CIA work called ‘voodoo science’

  July 18, 2007 in City on Page B2 Two Spokane-based psychologists working under contract to the CIA at interrogation sites for the war on terror practiced “voodoo science” that was brutal and ineffective, according to an article published …

• Spokane psychologists linked to CIA: Congress probes role in controversial interrogations

  June 29, 2007 in City on Page A1 Two Spokane psychologists are the focus of a congressional inquiry into the use of harsh techniques to interrogate terrorist suspects in Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan and at secret military and CIA …