What is the good faith aspect of the torture program?

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Jane Mayer says a CIA official told her 90% of the intel attained was crap.

Scott Shane on CIA interrogator Deuce Martinez:

The very fact that Mr. Martinez, a career narcotics analyst who did not speak the terrorists’ native languages and had no interrogation experience, would end up as a crucial player captures the ad-hoc nature of the program. Officials acknowledge that it was cobbled together under enormous pressure in 2002 by an agency nearly devoid of expertise in detention and interrogation.

Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation

Is this a joke?

Furthermore, did CIA act in good faith in the lead up to 9/11? No. They sat on crucial intel for 20 months.

Author Lawrence Wright will later comment, “The fact that the CIA withheld information about the mastermind of the Cole bombing and the meeting in Malaysia, when directly asked by the FBI, amounts to obstruction of justice in the death of seventeen American sailors who were killed in the Cole bombing.”

CIA fails to share intel with Cole investigators

Are we going to pretend that US officials acted in good faith? Just like Iran Contra was a heroic mission to spread democracy? Why don't we call it what it is...criminal conduct by people who acted in bad faith for some sort of sick ulterior motives.

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1. The whole purpose of torture is to instill fear in bystanders.

That's it. The people experiencing or witnessing the torture go out into the community and tell people not to fuck with the people meting it out. It's a form of social control. That's it and that's all.

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2. Indeed

It's quite effective in this regard. Sadly, it seems support for torture is considered patriotic.