re: #531 Obdicut

Okay, so you’ll never need to have to torture him at all. He’ll be happy to give you lie after lie about where the bomb is. Before you get near him with the lead pipe, he’ll say that bob has it, then that rob has it, then that doug has it.

Again: Why would you trust anything he was saying?

I don’t understand this argument. Interrogations would follow some kind of escalation procedure. Give the detainee a chance to cooperate; the truth is rewarded, disinformation is threated with escalating punishment. The speed of the escalation depends on the particulars of the threat.

So if you are resorting to illegal torture in a “ticking bomb” scenario, you will either get the truth in time, or you won’t.