DomKen -> RE: Okay so we are actually baptising terrorists when we water board them. (4/28/2014 5:47:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Well it was proven some time ago that 'enhanced interrogation" or "torture" is rarely effective. At least in the ways that the CIA was doing it. They forgot the lessons learned in South Vietnam while working with the South Vietnamese military intelligence personnel. Back in the day, unofficially and will be denied unless the records are actually released, and they still exist, you do not torture the person you want the intel from. You force them to watch you torture some other poor bastard until they are about to die, or do die. Then you pick another poor bastard and do the same to them. When you finally get to the one you know has the intel you want, he is more than willing to talk, and in detail. SOG and unofficial CIA controlled units got pristine intel in this manner. Another technique was to take about 5 to 8 vc or nva up in a huey to about 5000 feet, ask one a question, if he didnt answer, let him walk home. Repeat. Again by the time you got to the last guy, he was singing like a bird. After some liberal congressman started snooping around, the US units just turned over the prisoners to the South Vietnamese with a list of questions they wanted answered, and they did the dirty work. If you want to believe that the black ops units in the US military do not use similar techniques, I have some beach front property in Bakersfield CA I will sell you. And it will not be a lie, you just have to wait a million or so years for the west coast to move far enough north. And honestly if it saves lives, I dont give a fuck how the information is obtained. Especially if it is American lives. You might get useful battlefield intel that way from low level prisoners, which is what happened in Vietnam. But if you're dealing with the top guys in an organization they may not be as easy to break and the intel you need is strictly in their heads. For instance we know KSM knew the name, and other info, of the courier that led us to OBL. Multiple rounds of torture didn't get that vital bit of intel out of him. As a matter of fact the CIA report on our torture program revealed that no actionable intelligence was gathered either by us or our "allies" by means of torture.
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