[lbo-talk] Re: CIA torture techniques

[Michael Pollak]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Chuck Grimes wrote:

> Let's take the hostile deposition as an example of how to do an
> interrogation. I've been through several of these, so this is mostly
> personal experience. I am going to exaggerate, but basically
> this is the way these things work.

This is very good description of how interrogation is supposed to work.
And also why torture is completely unneeded to get to the truth.  These
standard techniques are all that are needed.  Tough cases just take more
time.

Torture muddies the water because we know it induces people to say things
they think their torturers want to hear to make it stop.  It's perfect for
inducing false confessions. That's always been mainly why police have used
it -- when they feel pressure to hang it on someone now.

Michael