Posted on 05/10/2016 4:05:03 PM PDT by Cyberman
In early 2003, Glenn Carle, an interrogator with the CIA, arrived at a secret detention facility overseas to question a recently captured Al-Qaeda suspect....
The man's dilapidated state of mind was the result of a systematic program of torture inflicted on terrorism suspects by the CIA after 9/11. Nudity, extreme temperatures, sleep and sensory deprivation, dietary manipulation, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" were meant to break down detainees' resistance to interrogation. The stress and disorientation induced by these methods, it was believed, would force them to cooperate and release whatever precious information they were hiding. But according to Carle, this theory is wrong.
His views have been vindicated by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which concluded in the executive summary of its 6,000-page study of the CIA program, released in December 2014, that the agency's harsh methods failed to glean any intelligence not available through softer tactics....
Meanwhile, compelling scientific evidence is emerging that torture and coercion are, at best, ineffective means of gathering intelligence. Worse, as Shane O'Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin, wrote in a recent book, Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, torture can produce false information by harming those areas of the brain associated with memory....
Indeed, the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school used to subject U.S. soldiers to waterboarding as part of their resistance training... the procedure does not elicit reliable information. It does, on the other hand, generate false confessions....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Ask a guy being tortured if it is effective LMAO!
He’ll talk....they almost ALL talk.
Terror on the other hand has been shown to be very effective.
The author should be water boarded until he tells the truth.
“You are avare, of course, zat ve have certain... methods, of - MAKING you talk.”
A person under torture will say anything. "Anything" includes the truth.
That's why a good interrogator never bothers to ask a question whose answer he cannot verify.
Indeed.
Most of those subjected to waterboarding, he says, confess as a result -- and their distress is so intense, they do not even remember confessing. In a recent BBC documentary, for which Nance served as a consultant, a volunteer underwent waterboarding and confessed to "being born a bunny rabbit."
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Hmm, That’s the same committee that was overseeing the GUN RUNNING IN BENGHAZI!!!
Who is science?
We’ll just do it for fun, then.
Science doesn’t understand psychology. Torture works great when properly applied. The hazing nonsense the public knows about isn’t torture.
From what I’ve read torture works up to a certain point and then if it gets too extreme people will say anything to make it stop.
What would anyone suspect coming from a liberal administration???
The liberals believe in giving them hot meals, TV, books, being so nice and asking them is there is anything they need???
Then, they will feel like being friends and tell you what you want to know....
Nothing listed in the article is torture. I have seen torture and it was effective and saved lives.
Not a big surprise. Military interrogaters have know for years that torture is unreliable. Unfortunately, you had a group of people in charge who did now want to listen to their own experts.
There’s a slew of prisoners in China and North Korea who all confessed after having their fingers broken, etc. All guilty, I guess...at least they confessed.
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Ask Osama if it is. Oops ya can’t! That’s how they got his courier’s name and ultimately found his compound.
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