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Holder to Appoint Prosecutor for CIA Terror Investigations

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lostlakehiker8/24/2009 2:19:18 pm PDT

re: #242 LGoPs

Terrorists who are perfectly willing to kill themselves while killing innocents don’t pass my humanity test. They wouldn’t understand being treated humanely - they would spit on it as proof of weakness. They would more readily understand fear and terror.
The Roman treatment would be the more appropriate.

Loose-sphincter gibbering panic might be fun to watch in a terrorist, but you learn nothing from it. Terrorists can be lied to more subtly than by telling them you’re going to kill their family.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Unless there’s a gawdawful rush to get something, be it true or false, out of the man right quick, why not use the slow tools that erode wariness and resolve?

There’s ways to undercut a man and bring him around without putting a gun to his head or hooking electrodes to sensitive parts, and without making threats that anybody high enough up to be a useful target of interrogation would know we wouldn’t follow through on.