“The big point is, this stuff won’t get you reliable info either, that’s why confessions elicited by same aren’t admissible in court.”
That’s the mantra the (liberal) media has fed us. Reality is slightly different: this stuff will get you both reliable and unreliable info. The second part is why it is inadmissible. But from a military perspective, if you have multiple sources, you can correlate the info to weed out the bad info.
So while it is useless in a criminal setting, it can be very useful in a military one. That’s why it is done.
I don’t care about what little reliable info we get from it. I am not into waterboarding and think the US should be better than that.