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Science Shows That Torture Doesn't Work and Is Counterproductive
Newsweek ^
| 05/08/2016
| Rupert Stone
Posted on 05/10/2016 4:05:03 PM PDT by Cyberman
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In the last analysis, this is one of the many cases where politicians (who want to be seen Doing Something whether it works or not) overrule the trained professionals (who are guided by reality).
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:05:03 PM PDT
by
Cyberman
To: Cyberman
Ask a guy being tortured if it is effective LMAO!
He’ll talk....they almost ALL talk.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:06:30 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Cyberman
Terror on the other hand has been shown to be very effective.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:07:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
The author should be water boarded until he tells the truth.
To: Cyberman
“You are avare, of course, zat ve have certain... methods, of - MAKING you talk.”
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:07:41 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Paul Ryan is toast.)
To: Cyberman
the procedure does not elicit reliable information. It does, on the other hand, generate false confessions.... A person under torture will say anything. "Anything" includes the truth.
That's why a good interrogator never bothers to ask a question whose answer he cannot verify.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:09:54 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
Hell talk....they almost ALL talk. Indeed.
Most of those subjected to waterboarding, he says, confess as a result -- and their distress is so intense, they do not even remember confessing. In a recent BBC documentary, for which Nance served as a consultant, a volunteer underwent waterboarding and confessed to "being born a bunny rabbit."
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:10:30 PM PDT
by
Cyberman
To: Cyberman
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Hmm, That’s the same committee that was overseeing the GUN RUNNING IN BENGHAZI!!!
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:11:21 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: Cyberman
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:12:07 PM PDT
by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
To: Cyberman
We’ll just do it for fun, then.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:15:24 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Cyberman
Science doesn’t understand psychology. Torture works great when properly applied. The hazing nonsense the public knows about isn’t torture.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:15:34 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: Cyberman
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:16:01 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Go Trump!)
To: stephenjohnbanker
From what I’ve read torture works up to a certain point and then if it gets too extreme people will say anything to make it stop.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:16:46 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: All
What would anyone suspect coming from a liberal administration???
The liberals believe in giving them hot meals, TV, books, being so nice and asking them is there is anything they need???
Then, they will feel like being friends and tell you what you want to know....
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:18:02 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Cyberman
... the procedure does not elicit reliable information. It does, on the other hand, generate false confessions...as someone pointed out quite correctly recently, when you torture terrorists you're not looking for confessions, you're looking for information - any kind of information - which can be expanded upon and verified or not - under the right circumstances virtually anybody will give up potentially useful info.....
To: Cyberman
Nothing listed in the article is torture. I have seen torture and it was effective and saved lives.
To: Cyberman
Not a big surprise. Military interrogaters have know for years that torture is unreliable. Unfortunately, you had a group of people in charge who did now want to listen to their own experts.
To: stephenjohnbanker
There’s a slew of prisoners in China and North Korea who all confessed after having their fingers broken, etc. All guilty, I guess...at least they confessed.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:25:53 PM PDT
by
Republic_Venom
(It's time for some Republic Venom!)
To: OKSooner
AKA
Wir Haben Mittel und Wegen um Sie su Sprechen Zwingen.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:26:15 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Cyberman
Ask Osama if it is. Oops ya can’t! That’s how they got his courier’s name and ultimately found his compound.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:27:54 PM PDT
by
McCarthysGhost
(We need to repeal and replace the Republican Party)
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