Inside the CIA's black site torture roomThere were twenty cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In August, Gul Rahman’s family and Mohamed Ben Soud and Suleiman Abdullah Salim, two surviving prisoners of the Afghan black site, reached an out-of-court settlement in their lawsuit against Jessen and James Mitchell seeking restitution for torture. The cells were designed for sensory deprivation, but the site manager put his own spin on what this would mean. Notes from one of Jessen’s interrogation sessions begin, “Rahman spent the days since his last session with station officers in cold conditions with minimal food and sleep. Many CIA officers who participated in the black site torture program were later hired by Mitchell Jessen and Associates, which continued to bill the CIA millions of dollars for interrogation-related services long after the program ended.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 04:52 UTC