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Holder to Appoint Prosecutor for CIA Terror Investigations

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~Fianna8/24/2009 12:04:32 pm PDT

re: #65 sattv4u2

I see. So you’re telling me there has been no actionable information obtained from interrogations?

It doesn’t seem to. Even the FBI’s own internal writings on the issue find that information gained in torture scenarios are not valuable. The Army agrees:

[quote]As Lt. General John Kimmons, the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, explained in a news conference:

I am absolutely convinced [that] no good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices. I think history tells us that. I think the empirical evidence of the last five years, hard years, tell us that,” said the general. “Moreover, any piece of intelligence which is obtained under duress, through the use of abusive techniques, would be of questionable credibility, and additionally it would do more harm than good when it inevitably became known that abusive practices were used. And we can’t afford to go there.[/quote]