isolation and loud music is not torture, scaring people with dogs and taking their clothes is also not torture. Torture is pulling out people’s fingernails, electric schocks, cutting out their tongues, hanging them by hooks, beating on them, breaking their bones one by one, all stuff the Taliban and al Quaida actually did and do. In my book, waterboarding is torture, but showing people sickening insects and this other dumb stuff above (the loud music, no sleep etc)is not torture.
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. So, take their weapons and maps, speed them to the rear and isolate them so they can’t plan with their buddies is about the most you can do. Question them, yes, but use psychological pressure, like “Your buds already told us, they said you planned the whole thing.”
This other stuff is just a waste of time money and personnel
“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.