Amy Goodman
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Journalist James Risen: CIA Torture Methods Caused Long-Term Psychological Harm to Former Prisoners
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16:35Now PlayingA New York Times investigation has found at least half of the 39 detainees who went through the CIA’s socalled enhanced interrogation program have since shown psychiatric problemssome have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, paranoia, depression or psychosis. These detainees were subjected to torture techniques such as severe sleep deprivation, waterboarding, mock execution, sexual violations and confinement in coffinlike boxes in secret CIA prisons and at Guantánamo. We speak to Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist James Risen and military psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Xenakis.
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