ABC News' Blotter Updates its 2007 Torture Story

On April 30, 2009,  ABC News had more to say about it's September 14, 2007 story concerning waterboarding.  Now, they have learned that two former military officers, Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell--working as Mitchell Jensen and Associates--were contracted by the CIA to instruct  it  in how to set up "legal" waterboarding techniques.  Both gentlemen cited contract restrictions from speaking to ABC as is clear from videos in the current online article. 

About Mitchell and Jensen:

"It's clear that these psychologists had an important role in developing what became the CIA's torture program," said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
and:
But it turns out neither Mitchell nor Jessen had any experience in conducting actual interrogations before the CIA hired them.

Authors Brian Ross, Matthew Cole, and Joseph Rhee write "that Abu Zubaydah was water boarded at least 83 times and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed at least 183 times."

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