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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
it's classified because perhaps the threat is bullshit. we will tell Egyptian security about you is a bit different from ringing them up. what is an FBI technique was to say "talk or we'll get them involved" BUT they never actually told the Egyptian security or whoever? it will no longer be any sort of effective technique now that it is public, but it might have been effective at one time.
That would actualy be almost what Ty had earlier lobbied for- we don't torture AND we don't hand over to foreign governement for torture.
What utter hell? given the situation he was found in, there was no way he wasn't spending some time in custody, I mean until the pilot showed up, the guy wasn't going to walk anyway.
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Effective at what? Getting people to confess to anything and everything so that their family
might be spared? If anything, this case shows that this interrogation method is
not effective. It's no wonder our intelligence sucks if this is the way we gather information.
And you don't think it'd be utter hell to live in a situation where you think your family is headed to the electrical probes and rape rooms if you don't do or say exactly what your captors want?
I've got no beef with his being in custody under those circumstances. And I have no problem with them checking him out. I wouldn't have even had a problem with them calling Egypt and checking his background out. He was a suspect with some pretty damning evidence against him that needed explanation. But coercion isn't admissable because it's unreliable, not because it's inhumane. And this is a pretty good example of why.
