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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm attacking your other point- that it doesn't work. Arguments are often best attacked from the side. Once we all agree it works, then we can discuss your other concerns.
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I dispute that it works. As Ty's post makes clear and as wonk's post implies, people under torture will admit to anything. A concrete example was provided in Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine." The "travel agent," al-Zipadeedoodah or whatever the fuck his name is, "confessed" under torture that AQ was targeting banks. And shoppiing malls. And power plants. Etc. FBI agents were dispatched, but of course there aren't nearly enough agents to cover all such facilities in the US. Turns out, they weren't really targets -- he just wanted the torture to stop. We just got bogus info and wasted valuable FBI time.
