You are wrong. I am a lawyer and no tortured confession produces anything worthwhile.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/guess_what_hillary_waterboarding_works.html
As an infantry NCO in Vietnam, I saw freshly captured Viet Cong prisoners punched, kicked, choked, and even electrically shocked with field telephones during battlefield interrogations, and every single one broke quickly and began giving up intelligence on their troop formations and placements.