Unfortunately, it appears many of those who were tortured were innocent. It is a bad precedent to set to allow the government to torture people in its custody. You can imagine the benefits some government official could have by increasing a conviction rates through an increase in the willingness of those arrested to ‘confess’ their crimes...
Better the waterboard than the drone strike.
Yes, The Comfy Chair or The Soft Pillows would work much better. /s
To be honest, I have not read this report. I was not aware we had more than three high profile, hardcore individuals.
Besides, how true is this report? From what I understand we didn’t talk to any CIA people. Also, if this had worked, would the left ADMIT that? And would it be worth interrogating, in one form or another, if we could save lives? Or would we prefer to remain “honorable” even if innocents had to die? This is not clear cut and dried......