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Recursion

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Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:33 PM Dec 2014

CIA torture was ineffective, Senate report concludes

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/09/cia-torture-report-senate-intelligence-feinstein/20134093/

The CIA's interrogation of suspected terrorists after the 9/11 attacks was far more brutal than the agency disclosed and failed to elicit information about any imminent threats to the USA, the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes in a report released Tuesday.

The use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and chaining prisoners in cold dungeons led some detainees to give false confessions, sending U.S. law enforcement officials in the wrong direction as they chased bad information, the report says.

One detainee interrogated by the CIA falsely confessed to trying to recruit African-American Muslims in Montana — a state where blacks make up less than 1% of the population.


I learned (very basic) interrogation techniques in the military. The first rule was to not make the guy afraid of you, because a guy who is afraid of you will tell you whatever you want to hear. But "whatever you want to hear" is generally not the truth.
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CIA torture was ineffective, Senate report concludes (Original Post) Recursion Dec 2014 OP
The senate should have called some of those tortured to testify. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #1
 

Tierra_y_Libertad

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1. The senate should have called some of those tortured to testify.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:36 PM
Dec 2014

Not to mention some of the "hands on" torturers.

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