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The CIA's $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations

Who makes decisions like this? Seriously...

But it turns out neither Mitchell nor Jessen had any experience in conducting actual interrogations before the CIA hired them.

"They went to two individuals who had no interrogation experience," said Col. Kleinman. "They are not interrogators."

The new documents show the CIA later came to learn that the two psychologists' waterboarding "expertise" was probably "misrepresented" and thus, there was no reason to believe it was "medically safe" or effective. The waterboarding used on al Qaeda detainees was far more intense than the brief sessions used on U.S. military personnel in the training classes.

We really need to figure out who at the CIA decided these two guys should be in charge of designing the CIA's interrogation program when THEY HAD NO EXPERIENCE WITH INTERROGATIONS. Put it this way, if your manager hired someone to be your accountant who had no experience with accounting... would that be a good managerial decision???? Of course not.

This isn't about Left or Right, Republican or Democrat. This is about making sure we have competent people in our intelligence agencies, the same agencies responsible for making sure we have the intel to avoid terrorist attacks and keep this nation safe.

How is that a partisan issue?