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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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So what do you think should happen here? He's SOL, and the court should make sure no one knows about the situation?
eta: Also, you seem to have missed that by using this technique, they got bad information from him. Because he was willing to say what they wanted to hear.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 10-23-2007 at 05:08 PM..
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