Well thats the thing. They are interrorgated, notice the past tense. What they do with them afterwards is the problem I see.

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well what do they do with them regardless if they answered the questions truthfully or not?

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This is what we get from electing ideologues who burrowed into groupthink lockdown the more they were challenged. Facts did not (nor do) get in the way of their beliefs so bad and tragic decisions were made in our name. Without any contrary ideas getting in they became even more radical in their thinking and beliefs. They believe patriotism is doing anything, ANYTHING, if they believe it has an iota of a possibility of saving an American life. Tragically they have probably killed more Americans than saved with the actions they took based on this belief. But I do not believe they were evil, just misguided and arrogant. As we have learned just because someone truly believes their actions were just does not make them so. We have also learned that we need to elect leaders who ENCOURAGE dissenting views & rigorous debate to make sure that the best decisions are made in our name.

So, the CIA and FBI do these interrogations because they do not work and kill more Americans?
These CIA and FBI agents are ignorant and arrogant?

Rigorous debate and dissenting views will do a better job of protecting Americans than interrogations?

I think my statement was clear - I am not talking about the FBI or CIA but elected officials, those creating the policies. The FBI and CIA follow orders from the policy makers.

The detainees held by the Bush adminstration weren't all that lucky. Let's see, two died after being shackled to the ceiling and literally beaten so severely that they both died a few days later. One of them had their legs so severely beaten the doctor doing the autopsy stated that had the man lived he would have had to have his legs amputated. Another was striped naked and subjected to severe cold over a long period of time and died of hypothermia. There were others but their fate eludes me right now.

Appartently Americans just aren't very good at torturing people........ they kill way too many of the victims.....

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You know - this is so "TV script"

Why not use hypnosis???

Truth is many of the drugs can get someone to talk but they also heighten suggestibility which means you might end up with false information. Plus memory is a plastic thing which can be moulded by imagination. These drugs blur reality and fantasy and therefore could end up with the person "remembering: something that did not happen

No one enforcing the law, whether CIA or FBI or military police, is under any obligation to follow any direction which violates the law. Certainly an FBI agent would know the Title 18 prohibitions against torture and/or cruel treatment of a prisoner. One would hope that anyone in the military would also know that following an unlawful order is strictly prohibited and orders to abuse a prisoner in any way is an unlawful order. That only leaves the CIA and I would hope that they had read the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution if nothing else.

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Good points. From what I know the FBI was not involved in waterboarding. Not sure about the CIA. It appears that contractors were hired to do the waterboarding. Not sure what cover they had. The Office of Legal Counsel produced judgments giving the admin cover, saying that waterboarding was not torture - I guess this is why Cheney keeps saying we were not torturing.