The Texas State Board of Psychologists will hold a hearing on Feb. 8 in the complaint against James Mitchell, the Texas-licensed architect of CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques."

The first step in the disciplinary process against Mitchell, the hearing means that the board has not elected to dismiss it outright as legally insufficient. That means, according to Dicky Grigg, the Austin lawyer who worked with Northwestern University law professor Joseph Margulies and Texas psychologist Jim Cox to bring the complaint, that it has cleared two initial hurdles: The board has determined there was probable cause behind it and that it has ...

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