Interview With a Torturer
@8min
Rachel Maddow: Did you think of it as torture at the time?Tony Lagouranis: I didn’t really think of it as torture. I certainly do now.
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@10min 50sec
Tony Lagouranis: It’s counter productive to make the person that you’re trying to get talk to you hate you. Torture, in my experience having used torture quite extensively as an interrogator, it does not work.Rachel Maddow: Why do it then?
Tony Lagouranis: I think often we use torture because we’re frustrated, because we’re angry. It’s not necessarily about getting intelligence, it’s not about being productive.