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… Zubaydah is suing psychologists and former CIA contractors Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, who he says tortured him.

… Zubaydah remains detained at Guantanamo Bay. He has never been charged with a crime.

The allegations of torture are not new. Jessen and Mitchell settled a previous torture civil suit in 2017 brought by three men who were tortured after Zubaydah.

Zubaydah’s torture was discussed extensively in the 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.

In the 2017 lawsuit, the three men alleged that the torture techniques used against them were pioneered when Jessen and Mitchell interrogated Zubaydah. …–