re: #395 Mosh

But there is one thing that I just don’t get with civil libertarians. You guys critique waterboarding, threats, and using their arachnaphobia against them. But you guys never argue an alternative interrogation method.

What should be done to interrogate terrorist suspects and would you consider it appropriate if those interrogation techniques where made available to the media?

“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

Here’s the deal, the professionals knew what they were doing and had a long and distinguished history of doing it well before the inmates were put in charge of the asylum.