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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Compared to what? If you start waterboarding a guy, you can't use the approaches the Army and the FBI prefer, which they feel produces better and more useful information. In that way, it's counterproductive.
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Assuming we can get the information reliably and with in the same time frame without torture, then we should not use torture. If torture does not give us reliable information we should not use it. But if torture of terrorists will get us information that will save innocent human lives then torture should be used.
If that guy from the military that wrote that book was correct when he said torture has no practical value, then it should not be used. But if the guy from ABC is right, that torture has procured valuable information, that could not be obtained any where else (and definitely not in as timely a fashion), and the procurement of such informationhas saved human lives, then torture should continued to be used.
