The ways this paradox has influenced individual Mormons have recently found their way into the news. In July 2007, Vanity Fair published an article that disclosed the fact that the two authors of the new torture techniques being practiced by CIA interrogators are both Mormon psy- chologists: James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen—who, because of their shared reli- gion, were referred to by colleagues as the “Mormon mafia.” In addition to devising or adapting the new information extraction techniques, Mitchell and Jessen also were put in charge of training interrogators in these new techniques—including “water- boarding”—at CIA “black sites” throughout the world.