re: #595 tatterdemalian

Well, now that the terrorists know that any CIA agent that even so much as threatens their family members will eventually be reprimanded or possibly even fired, no threat will be able to move them any more. Thanks for that, media!

Clearly we shall have to rely on Charles’ expertise on extracting information from terrorists in the future. Maybe we can hire psychics to read their auras?

I think telling a terrorist suspect that you are going to kill their children is, while immoral, not as reprehensible as say torturing the actual suspect. Because for the simple fact that even the terrorist knows that America is too moral a nation to kill the children of it’s enemies. I don’t think a terrorist suspect would believe it. But once you take a suspect and you object them to inhumane treatment- extreme stress positions, extreme heat and cold, waterboarding. Once you subject them to that I think that threat of killing their children may not be a fantasy to them.

I only wonder if any intelligence gained from all that could not have been gained legitimately. Listen to our professional military interrogators, the retired ones that are allowed to speak. To a man they say that torture techniques do not give us valuable intel and that traditional interrogation methods work.