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Old 12-28-2005, 03:40 AM
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Default the alleged usefulness of torture

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Protect? That's an interesting assumption about what the use of torture (or "cruel and inhumane treatment" if you want to get Clintonian about it) does for intelligence-gathering. Is there any evidence to suggest that the iron-glove treatment actually improves intelligence gathering? I've seen several suggestions that the most you get from torture is false confessions and the production of misinformation.
Oh by all means then. Lets use your found suggestions. I like your idea of gambling with innocent lives.
What gambling? What threat is there to any human life? Please provide evidence of the alleged efficacy of these unethical practices. I don't buy that it's an effective interrogation technique. Useful for extracting confessions from your enemies, that I can see, but not for getting confessions that are actually true.
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