So I was browsing the newly released "Inquiry Into The Treatment Of Detainees In US Custody" and I came across this paragraph in the executive summary:

On April 16, 2002, Dr. Bruce Jessen, the senior SERE psychologist at JPRA, circulated a draft exploitation plan to JPRA Commander Colonel Randy Mouhon and other senior officials at the agency. The contents of that plan remain classified but Dr. Jessen's initiative is indicative ofthe interest of JPRA's senior leadership in expanding the agency's role.

I did a quick Google and found out a couple of interesting things about this guy and his partner, James Mitchell.  To make a long story short - they literally reverse engineered the techniques that were used in the SERE program and then started a consulting firm up here in Spokane and charged the government top dollar to train interrogators how best to implement these techniques on detainees.

Anyhow ...  DemocracyNow apparently knew this would be a germane subject and did a broadcast on the guys earlier today (with transcript).  I can't actually make it through the whole thing it's pissing me off so much.  It's is worth the watch/read if you can stomach it.

This bugs me more than Bybee being a judge.  Aren't psychologists bound by some sort of code or something???  How can these people be allowed to call themselves doctors when they used their knowledge to destroy minds?

Update:
OK, as usual I've got it backwards.  I guess psychiatrists are the technical doctors?  Can't keep the Optometrist vs Ophthalmologist  thing correct either.  But here's an interesting tidbit from the DemocracyNow interview regarding the American Psychological Association by Salon's Mark Benjamin(The CIA's Torture Teachers) ,

Reader's Digest version is that I think it's safe to say that the psychologists have been traditionally very, very close to the military. You know, they've been working with the military and the CIA for years and are closer than, say, psychiatrists and other doctors. I think it's fair to say that the APA, the psychologists, as opposed to psychiatrists and doctors, have been much more willing since September 11th to play ball, essentially, to not remove themselves from interrogations as doctors and psychiatrists did, to continue to participate.
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And I think that's reflected in the way Mitchell and Jessen, you know, were so important here. I think the psychologists saw a way to be players at the table, and that was reflected in their association, in the APA. And the APA essentially allowed their--you know, wrote rules, year after year after year, that would allow the continued participation of psychologists in these brutal interrogations. And now that these memos have come out, I think it's really clear how important the government saw those psychologists were, in having them in the room or watching on video or designing the program or carrying it out.  

Someone somewhere has some 'splainin to do dammit.