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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
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.
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do you think its possible they got any names and locations and plots that have been kept, you know, secret? because if after 5 years all they got are a handful of lies, I'm sort of confused why they would fight to keep the right to do it. even if your argument is they're sadists, bush/cheney aren't actually in the rooms, are they?
