Posted on 05/10/2016 4:05:03 PM PDT by Cyberman
In early 2003, Glenn Carle, an interrogator with the CIA, arrived at a secret detention facility overseas to question a recently captured Al-Qaeda suspect....
The man's dilapidated state of mind was the result of a systematic program of torture inflicted on terrorism suspects by the CIA after 9/11. Nudity, extreme temperatures, sleep and sensory deprivation, dietary manipulation, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" were meant to break down detainees' resistance to interrogation. The stress and disorientation induced by these methods, it was believed, would force them to cooperate and release whatever precious information they were hiding. But according to Carle, this theory is wrong.
His views have been vindicated by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which concluded in the executive summary of its 6,000-page study of the CIA program, released in December 2014, that the agency's harsh methods failed to glean any intelligence not available through softer tactics....
Meanwhile, compelling scientific evidence is emerging that torture and coercion are, at best, ineffective means of gathering intelligence. Worse, as Shane O'Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin, wrote in a recent book, Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, torture can produce false information by harming those areas of the brain associated with memory....
Indeed, the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school used to subject U.S. soldiers to waterboarding as part of their resistance training... the procedure does not elicit reliable information. It does, on the other hand, generate false confessions....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Start popping a kneecap with a .22 and see. (just read a John Sandford novel).
If a report is published in Newsweek, doesn’t that make it a lie? Or is it simply unreliable?
Just so I get this right.... Professor Maria Hartwig thinks she can get information from a terrorist that is willing to strap a bomb on his kid, himself or his wife to blow up innocent people because his god wills it just by being nice? Really???? I would love to see that in action.
“Is it safe?”
And there are methods to ensure that when they talk they are telling the truth.
I tried to listen to a Hillary speech. I really tried. After three minutes, I would have confessed to being in league with Osama bin Laden, Barack Hussein Obama, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, just to make it stop.
These people want to kill us indiscriminately and liberals are worried about dunking their heads underwater, something that happens at community pools everyday.
This is something left over from April Fool’s Day - right???
Let a hungry Pig or a Dog eat their feet and they will talk.
James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!
What percent of time does it work? Anything above zero might be worth it.
Horsesh*t! Torture wouldn’t have been around for thousands of years if these morons were right. Torture works regardless of what “science” with liberal government grants says.
Even better, just the mere THREAT should be good enough.
"You're gonna do WHAT to my balls??? What do you want to know?"
I’m not sure if I am happy or not to find someone just like me.
Ask Jose Rodriguez if enhanced interrogation works.
Of course there are. The men asking the questions are not empty headed dullards getting their jollies.
I guess that’s why torture has been employed successfully for literally thousands of years. If it didn’t work nobody would do it. If you could get people to talk by buying them donuts then governments would have the best donuts.
Regardless if we should do this stuff or not, I’m not sure any of that stuff is really torture. Folks have volunteered for waterboarding and sleep deprivation. Nobody in the history of the world ever volunteered to test out the new model thumbscrews or iron boots.
Freegards
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.