Unprosecuted War Criminal Whines About Bad Press

Not prosecuted yet, that is.  What Mitchell and Jessen did was monstrous. It's also a crime. I hope we are willing to come clean with ourselves about just what went on here. That means declassifying all of this sadistic, evil behavior and holding the perpetrators to account.

Torquemada was not a whiner

But Mitchell, who was reported to have personally waterboarded accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, remains unrepentant. "The people on the ground did the best they could with the way they understood the law at the time," he said. "You can't ask someone to put their life on the line and think and make a decision without the benefit of hindsight and then eviscerate them in the press 10 years later." The 6,600-page, $40m Senate report is still secret, but a summary of its 20 conclusions and findings, obtained by McClatchy News, alluded to the role Mitchell and another psychologist under contract to the CIA, Bruce Jessen, played in the torture program. The committee's chair, Democrat Dianne Feinstein, has said the report "exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation". She added: "It chronicles a stain on our history that must never again be allowed to happen."

Mitchell and Jessen should rot in prison for the rest of their lives.