There are many levels of torture. Low level torture, meaning no maiming, along with certain drugs will do the trick in my opinion. The subjects in question are not hardened enough to resist it
Keep them awake for 72 hours straight and they'll spill everything. The sleep deprivation also makes them too disoriented to make stuff up.
Yes, that's all I meant. I wouldn't want to resort to their kind of torture like cutting off limbs and gouging eyes, we are a sophisticated country with high technology, I think there are methods which would be very very effective and which would save many lives which would be lost in a prolonged war or failure to find out terrorist plots. Sodium pentathol given to a person with electrodes applied in various places, I'm sure some stimulation to parts of the brain to help memory recall could be useful, but also electrical jolts given to induce some serious pain in other areas.
Also it might not be considered torture but a nice cocaine or heroin addiction might be good for getting some to give up secrets in exchange for their next drug high.