U.S. Intelligence Agencies Employ Therapists To Help Analysts Deal With The Emotional Trauma From Watching Jihadist Executions And Their Abuse Of Children

The analysts watch graphic content and look at violent photos to gain clues about the actions of terrorists. Daily Mail



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Some U.S. intelligence analysts spend days scouring ISIS beheading videos and jihadists’ porn. When it gets to be too much, there’s a cadre of therapists on call.


Given the choice, most of us would probably turn away in revulsion from the beheading videos and other images of depravity that are the propaganda hallmarks of ISIS and its terrorist brethren.


But for some, watching this graphic material is all in a day’s work. Imagery analysts and terrorism experts at U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the NSA, and the National Counterterrorism Center, sit in banal warrens of cubicles or in closed rooms in top-secret facilities scrutinizing the details of a nightmarish gallery of prisoner beheadings, attacks on U.S. military forces, and sexual abuse of children. It’s their job to find clues in the material that might indicate how an attack was carried out, when another might be coming, and where terrorists are holding their hostages.



Update #1: CIA and NSA analysts who spend all day watching ISIS beheadings, brutal attacks and hard core child pornography are treated by specialist psychologists -- Daily Mail

Update #2: CIA Analysts Must Watch Videos Of ISIS Beheadings, Horrific Attacks, And Child Abuse -- Inquisitr



WNU Editor: As a rule I stay away from this stuff .... years ago I accidentally saw an execution video posted by Chechens on a Russian soldier .... that image is still in my mind. The fact that people are employed to see everyday .... I can never be paid enough to do that job.