who are glad to see people tortured, killed, whatever. They almost seem to celebrate. I try to stay away from comments sections on news reports because there are so many people who seem to love seeing people hurt and killed.

CJCRANE

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2. "Not only were the interrogation tactics used by the CIA more brutal and less effective

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:51 PM

Dec 2014

than previously admitted, but they had been proven to be counterproductive in the 1980s - by the CIA itself."

Peter Foster reports

The brutal techniques deployed by the CIA’s interrogation teams including waterboarding, sleep and food deprivation and mock executions were derived from Cold War manuals that had long been discredited, the report says.

In 1989 the CIA’s own reviews of the “inhumane” techniques concluded that those kinds of interrogations were “counterproductive because they do not produce intelligence and will probably result in false answers.”

However despite this finding the report says the CIA deployed the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in a “near non-stop fashion for days or weeks at a time”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11282617/CIA-torture-report-released-live.html

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. Sadly I think it is way more then half

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:52 PM

Dec 2014

I see some reliable Democratic voters (not liberal or progressives) shrugging their shoulders over the whole thing.

malthaussen

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4. I'd put it more strongly than that...

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:03 PM

Dec 2014

... but it would just be hidden by the jury. Suffice it that I believe there will be far more defenders of the program than detractors, and many of the latter will only object on grounds of utility.

-- Mal

Laurian

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5. Sadly, I agree.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:35 PM

Dec 2014

I was thinking that same thought as I heard the reports on the car radio.

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