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Denver Man Admits Al Qaeda Ties

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Salamantis9/18/2009 2:05:07 pm PDT

re: #147 drcordell

Am I alone in the belief that torturing a single person is a disgrace to all that America stands for? Not to mention the fact that waterboarding is a technique used not for interrogation, but to solicit false confessions. See Korean War, East German Stasi, Nazi Germany.


You may not be alone in the belief that it is better to allow thousands of innocent civilian citizens merely going about their day and trying to support their families to die horrible painful deaths rather than to subject a single genocidal terrorist mastermind to extreme discomfort without physical pain or permanent physical consequences in order to extract the information necessary to save them, but I don’t think you’d be in the majority on this list.

And extracting intel is quite different from extracting supposedly false confessions for the purpose of show trials, as what is important about intel is that it be true, and both the interrogator and the interrogatee know that any intel provided will be checked out, and should it prove to be false, they would be seeing each other again - so the interrogatee has an understood and vested interest in not lying about such matters.