Saturday, May 16, 2009
Murky and Murkier
I can't figure it out, folks. How do the interrogators, the ones who actually administer these enhanced interrogation techniques, know whether they're working or not (aka, providing valuable intelligence)? Do they use them for a while and stop, gather the information and then try and verify it? And then, yes, me-buckos, what if the information ISN'T reliable? Do they then go back and use these measures additionally, ad infinitum - this, until they frigging DO get something useful?...................................................................OR, folks, do they kind of have the information already and only use these enhanced interrogation measures to verify it? Which, of course, leads one to wonder, why in the hell does one use them, period? I mean, I think we all pretty much know that you can get a person, if in fact you put them under enough duress, to basically confess to anything. In the soon to be famous words of Jesse "the body/governor", "give me a water-board and Dick Cheney, and within an hour I'll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murders."
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You seriously have done no research into the various established, successful, techniques that are used every day by our various organizations safeguarding us?
Most of the stuff that I've read (and, granted, it hasn't been an exhaustive search), says that torture provides ridiculous/unreliable information. And the fact that it's backers are guys like Cheney, O'Reilly, Gaffney, etc., that makes it even more difficult to digest.
The enhanced technique was used on three terrorists after interrogation revealed they were withholding information critical to the safety of US citizens.
I would seriously love for them to release the documents on this as Cheney suggested.
What about Zubaydah? It sounds like he was cooperating and only clamped up when the water-boarding started. I agree with you on the document release, though. That should definitely happen (though, I seriously doubt that they will be conclusive - rarely, if ever, are they).
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