The two psychologists who were handsomely paid by the CIA to devise harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding say they had reservations about using them but were pressured by US security officials to keep going.
"They kept telling me every day a nuclear bomb was going to be exploded in the United States and that because I had told them to stop, I had lost my nerve and it was going to be my fault if I didn’t continue," John Bruce Jessen said in a deposition given in connection with a civil suit brought by former detainees against him and colleague James Mitchell.
The New York Times obtained the men's video depositions—the case is scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 5—and has a lengthy account.
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