Our country, long-time opponent of torture, began torturing suspects after 9/11/01.  Obama said it plainly not long ago, and I wince to quote him, “we tortured some folks.”

The torture did not necessarily make us any safer.  There are people, like Dick Cheney, who argue that torture got us actionable intelligence and saved American lives.  There are also people who can almost carry a tune with their farts.

Two enterprising psychologists, Dr. John “Bruce” Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell formed a company that got a $18o,000,000 plus contract to design a torture program for the “enhanced interrogation” of “enemy combatants”.   The two were originally hired on $1,000 a day retainers for these important services.

They were paid only $81,000,000 on that contract before their services were terminated in 2009 by the Obama Administration.   Unsung American heroes they do not deserve to be forgotten.