Science Shows That Torture Doesn't Work and Is Counterproductive

Newsweek ^ | 05/08/2016 | Rupert Stone

[kvanbrunt2]

but it’s fun

[kvanbrunt2]

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.>>> agreed it works as well as propaganda

[patriot08]

BS

[Company Man]

We’ll just do it for fun, then.

Schadenfreudlicious!

[vpintheak]

Except when it does, and it’s effective. Then it works.

[Mr. Blond]

Whatever happened to good old fashioned sodium pentathol?

[Jack Hammer]

Newsweek.

End of story.

[Hulka]

” December 2014, that the agency’s harsh methods failed to glean any intelligence not available through softer tactics....”

So, they admit torture “gleans” facts that also can be discovered via “softer” methods. . .meaning, if time is critical then torture can be a useful tool.

[Radix]

Torture would work on me, and I’m not a wimp.

These ‘experts’ are full of crap.

[trebb]

Is that the same “science” that “proves global warming is real”?????

[MaxFlint]

The way the culture is going any conservative in favor of torture naive to say the least. We're the very first people who will be on the rack if Hillary wins, make no mistake. And she'll use the psychopathic reasoning of the neocon hacks to justify it. Remember, DHS already considers us radical extremist terror threats despite having subsequently withdrawn the report due to bad PR.

I also take a very dim view of people who search high and low for loopholes in the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. "Gitmo isn't the United States" is a lawyer's answer, maybe legally correct but a direct path to Hell.

[Cyberman]

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.

Also, we know that witchcraft is real, since there are so many reported confessions of it.

[PapaBear3625]

I just got done reading a book about the civil war in Spain during the 1930s. Torture was used on Communist spies and nationalist rolled up their entire spying and guerrilla network that way. Torture works.

Like I said up-thread, a good interrogator never bothers to ask a question whose answer he cannot verify. The correct method is to ask for information, with the subject understanding that he will be fine as long as the information checks out.

[PapaBear3625]

So when catch the terrorist who has a dirty bomb set to blow in Manhattan in one hour, do we give him a nice banana split sundae or strap him into a chair with a new pair of pruning shears starting at his left pinkie finger, top joint till he talks?

In the bomb scenario, it's easy. We tell him he will be tortured until we find the bomb, and if the bomb goes off, he will be tortured for days until he dies.

He will tell ALL he knows.

[dila813]

A trained interrogator that has been subject to these methods knows they are effective.

[zzwhale]

NEWSWEEK IS A PIECE OF LIBTARD GARBAGE AND SIDNEY HARMAN OVERPAID WHEN HE PAID $1 FOR IT...

of course waterboarding works...
ask KSM
he cried for his mommy and spilled his guts
besides only 3 al queda were waterboarded
libtards should stfu.... and “studies” are politically biased
reality is it works,,,,,,,

[T-Bone Texan]

In the seminal (not really) movie Serpent and the Rainbow, a guy is tortured by the Ton Ton Macoute and has a spike run through his scrotum.

That always stuck with me, and I have not set foot in Haiti to this day.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah.....experts AREN’T : )

[stephenjohnbanker]

THIS I believe.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“And there are methods to ensure that when they talk they are telling the truth.”

EXACTLY