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...is a poll question you won't ever see asked by the MSM.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Torture is great for recruiting.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)which sends intelligence agents off looking in the wrong direction thus wasting valuable time and resources.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Detainees have claimed they told them false information so the pain would stop
http://assets.nybooks.com/media/doc/2010/04/22/icrc-report.pdf
I know someone out there will say OMG how could you believe Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The little details help tell me if a description is accurate or not and they're very detailed accounts.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)of all the things he confessed to, at the time, here on DU.
Even then people were saying it was ridiculous, he was confessing to every major crime that happened in recent history.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The torture of one person was the sole evidence for WMDs in Iraq.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)The act makes you worse than what you fear.