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Coercive techniques..........
Brian Ross the ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent was on Fox. He said that he has conclusively substantiated facts that torture or strong interrogative techniques have thwarted terrorist plots. He had absolutely no doubt that such techniques had obtained information that had saved lives. Specifically, Colleed Sheik Mohammed gave up at least fourteen plots because of coercive interrogation techniques (Water boarding) used against him. The most important was a plot against a tower in Los Angeles that would have cost thousands of lives was thwarted because of information he gave up under coercive techniques.
The Secret Police in Pakistan used torture to get the information that when passed on to British officials enabled them to stop the recent London plane plots.
Brian Ross also confirmed that many Generals deny torture works to protect the image of the Army. But he has information that the army has used coercive techniques and that such techniques have produced important information.
I vote that they use water boarding whenever they think it is necessary. I would also argue that it would have been immoral not to use coercive techniques against Sheik Mohammed to get that information.
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