What is the most effective?
Anyway, that's really counter-intuitive. I mean, I guess I could deal with pain, but losing body parts, skin or eyes? I would talk pretty fast.
Anyway, that's really counter-intuitive. I mean, I guess I could deal with pain, but losing body parts, skin or eyes? I would talk pretty fast.
Its also been shown to be a fairly poor technique, compared to other alternatives, to get accurate, actionable information.
As the Senate report itself notes, this was the conclusion of the CIA's own work on interrogation techniques prior to 9/11, which was disregarded in the aftermath of 9/11.
Which frankly makes me think they believe it does. The easy political win is to say it doesn't, and they aren't taking it.
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/542382617711370240
"Obama official: White House won’t take sides between CIA, which says interrogations worked, and Senate, which says they didn’t."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff
http://www.k-state.edu/actr/2010/12/20/suspect-interrogation...
It gets even worse when the subject doesn't actually know anything useful. Waterboard most people and they will confess to anything they think will make it stop.