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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts) Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:36 PM Dec 2014

Do you support torture even if it puts American lives at risk?

...is a poll question you won't ever see asked by the MSM.

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Do you support torture even if it puts American lives at risk? (Original Post) CJCRANE Dec 2014 OP

Which it does JonLP24 Dec 2014 #1

And provides false information CJCRANE Dec 2014 #2

That is true too JonLP24 Dec 2014 #4

I remember reading a news report CJCRANE Dec 2014 #5

It already put a couple hundred thousand at risk. Kalidurga Dec 2014 #3

Never. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #6

Only sociopaths support torture whatchamacallit Dec 2014 #7

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

1. Which it does

Reply to CJCRANE (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:44 PM

Dec 2014

Torture is great for recruiting.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)

2. And provides false information

Reply to JonLP24 (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 01:00 PM

Dec 2014

which sends intelligence agents off looking in the wrong direction thus wasting valuable time and resources.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

4. That is true too

Reply to CJCRANE (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 01:13 PM

Dec 2014

Detainees have claimed they told them false information so the pain would stop

http://assets.nybooks.com/media/doc/2010/04/22/icrc-report.pdf

I know someone out there will say OMG how could you believe Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The little details help tell me if a description is accurate or not and they're very detailed accounts.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)

5. I remember reading a news report

Reply to JonLP24 (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 01:18 PM

Dec 2014

of all the things he confessed to, at the time, here on DU.

Even then people were saying it was ridiculous, he was confessing to every major crime that happened in recent history.