RE:....those Russian information extraction specialists to get some useful intel out of those terrorists.
Yes, appeal to their better natures, pretend to be on their side and ask them gently and sweetly. “You really agree that what you did was wrong and your family wouldn’t approve, don’t you?”
After the waterboarding and electric shocks in the airless, pitch dark solitary confinement cell gets them in the mood.
Water boarding is a quaint CIA technique. The Russians would just shove their head into a tub of water. Either ice cold or boiling hot.
I would hate to be in a position where a Turkish prison was the best outcome I could possibly hope for...