Senate Intell Committee To Release Report: We didn't learn shit from torturing people.

[kpete]

Torture Didn't Work
by BooMan
Thu May 17th, 2012 at 12:47:56 AM EST

So, it looks like Diane Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee is going to release a report http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/227837-senate-intel-panel-to-release-report-on-enhanced-interrogation-this-summer sometime this summer that concludes that we didn't learn shit from torturing people. We only know about this because the guy in charge of torturing people, Jose Rodriguez, has been going all over the place, including on 60 Minutes, claiming that the only reason that we found bin-Laden is because we tortured the crap out of someone. That assertion was too much to take for someone involved with the Senate investigation and they went leaking to Reuters. Jose Rodriguez is the guy who ordered the destruction of all the torture porn we had on video tape. He walks free because no one crosses the CIA, especially the guys who don't give a damn about slamming people into walls or beating people's legs to a pulp and leaving them to die. Bush and Cheney ordered this. It's obscene that the Senate has been investigating the effectiveness of their order. What if it had worked? What then? We legalize torture?

I expect the Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to say the report is "politicized" and refuse to sign it. They never take responsibility for anything.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/17/04756/1460

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. But if we catch this guy, and he's the only one who knows when this

zenon-krypton-radial-Uranus enhanced dirty bomb was hidden in Wachington CD, and we catch him, and like, we can torture him and and if we do it like 24, cuz I know that was true, and like, when we break his fingers just like Jack Ryan before he became president and like when he talks, not ryan but the president, no, I mean the Kenyan muslin terrorist who built that zenon krypton radial Uranas bomb and hid it, and then he tells us where he hid it, then we can save all those lives!

And it aint torture if we do it!

[KansDem]

2. It's time to waterboard Bush and Cheney...

...and I don't really care if we learn anything from them.

[Dragonfli]

3. They will confess to whatever you wish, that is what those techniques were designed to do

They were used historically to obtain confessions, not to obtain any truth.

This is actually pretty well known but many like to pretend otherwise.



During the Inquisition, do you really think all those that confessed to having sex with the devil or whatever and then asked to be forgiven actually told the truth?

Torture is used to get people to say or do what you want, it is not effective for anything else, never has been.