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GreatGazoo

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10. the support comes because of the lie that torture produces useful information

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2014, 11:31 AM

Dec 2014

It doesn't -- this Senate report confirms that, again.

They take polls and ask the a hypothetical: Do you support torture if it saves innocent lives? Yes or No

I think the intelligence community knows that confessions made under torture are not reliable. There are MUCH more reliable ways to get intel -- bugging, spoofing, drugging, taxi drivers, prostitutes, etc.

When the average American says they support torture they mean the imaginary kind that has value and produces useable info. Never mind that THAT only happens on the fantasy that is "24."

The Chinese methods that they based our tortures on was used primarily to elicit confessions -- NOT to get real information.

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