'You Can't Trust Congress': The Architect (Extra Scene 1)

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a blistering, 500-page report on the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program, a document that committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said represents the most significant oversight effort in the history of the US Senate.

The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of “high-value detainees” held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding.

The committee reviewed more than 6 million pages of top-secret CIA documents and found that "two contract psychologists devised the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques and played a central role in the operation, assessments, and management of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program." Mitchell is one of the psychologists. He is identified in the Senate report with the pseudonym Grayson Swigert. The report said "CIA Headquarters chose the most coercive interrogation option, which was proposed and supported by CIA contractor SWIGERT."

A day after the Senate released its report, VICE News released 'The Architect', a documentary on Mitchell. In the interview, which took place prior to the release of the Senate report and marks the first time Mitchell spoke on-camera to a news organization after 9/11, he was confronted with questions about his role in the enhanced interrogation program — but he declined to give answers due to his non-disclosure agreement with the CIA.

Following the release of the Senate report and VICE News' interview with him, Mitchell was bombarded with media inquiries and was the subject of dozens of news reports. Late Wednesday, he was informed by the CIA that he could now confirm that he was under contract to the agency and "that [he] was part of the enhanced interrogation program."

According to the Senate report, Mitchell is the CIA contractor who personally waterboarded alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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[beboful]

This guy is so rational it blows my mind

[RobbieMinor]

Am i the only person spacing out on the mini whirl pools he's creating while paddling?

[zackarycoker]

Setting everything he may or may not have done aside, I think I like this guy. And his comment about the government has some truth to it.

[northernbohemian]

Sickening.
The "He's right" responses demonstrate how evil many Americans have become. They may call themselves"conservatives, " but this guy's message is that Big Government knows best and it shouldn't let the people's representatives control it.
Sickening.

[delona]

This psychopath doesn't believe in democracy. These are the kind of people who would be a Qaddafi or Saddam in America if they had their way. A total psychopath. It is scary how self righteous he sounds!

[RiotHouseLP]

Honestly who do you trust, Diane Feinstein and this Democrat only report (no Republicans were on the committee, it already stinks because of that), or this fellow who is willing to sit down with VICE news.  Personally I think this guy sounds pretty rational, especially how he described Congress, both the politics behind the report and Congress' inability to get anything done.

[Dutchhero]

"Congress shouldn't be calling the shots" 
one could also say
"This US democracy thing here is broken"

how can an highly educated person say some powerful anonymous organisation with extreme levels of potential/capability should be able to do as it pleases?

ffs people when do we learn:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

[GHOSTPEACH]

idk why but i felt so fucking relaxed watching this 

[VICENews]

Following the release of the Senate report and VICE News' interview with him, Mitchell was bombarded with media inquiries and was the subject of dozens of news reports. Late Wednesday, he was informed by the CIA that he could now confirm that he was under contract to the agency and "that [he] was part of the enhanced interrogation program."

According to the Senate report, Mitchell is the CIA contractor who personally waterboarded alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

[Sammpsaa]

"I'm just tired of people lying about my background"

[CeruleanHalo]

Here you see the young President Snow in his bayou years. Using his calming silver tongue and hypnotic whirlpool paddle to put the viewer in a receptive trance before the 47th hunger games.

[juhall]

To Anyone who's forgotten the Lockerbie bombing, the bombings of the Khobar Towers, the attack on the WTC in the 1990s, the attack on the USS Cole, the 9/11 attacks, the constant suicide bombing murders of innocent civilians from Iraq to Israel to Europe, ISIS' murdering of civilians (including children), need only look at the news today about the Taliban suicide bombing a school in Afghanistan---because the school play criticized suicide bombings---something that's apparently against "Islamic values." Murder. Cruelty. Hate. Consistent evil on display for anyone with eyes to see or with ears to hear.  

[asArsenic]

That is a remarkably anti-democratic sentiment he expresses for an American.

[dylanweiss]

One question VICE and i mean this as genuinely as i feel about your journalism, why put serene music in the back ground? His words in my opinion are enough but its the subtleties that get me when it comes to film. Hope you can give a response.
Cheers

[smujismuj]

Someone needs to waterboard these torture enablers.

[lolmao]

Oh they can pass bills... as long as they get paid by the banksters.

[cellsec]

yes right.... you can't trust anyone i agreee... but that does not mean that if someone releases information about someone else doing horrible things we should not be angry at those horrible things(when they admit they did it)

[DualityMan]

he's sounds like a man who's been brainwashed by the system he served. hardcore no form of self thought whatsoever, it's scary to think this guy was put in charge of anything. he definitely sounds like if he was in charge of our education system he would implement disciplining again like we're in the 50s because hitting a kid "makes them more focused to learn".

[CanuckGT]

Cause we all know the the c.i.a is doing such a fucking great job so far!

[NeBiStR]

Meh and ROFL. Feeling both of those "emotions"
at the same time...