This is very good description of how interrogation is supposed to work... These standard techniques are all that are needed... Tough cases just take more time...Torture muddies the water... Michael Pollak
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I give.
But in the case of Iraq we are dealing with the Army's military intelligence (always a questionable item), not a high priced corporate lawyer, or sophisticated urban police. There is also the problem of language and culture.
Then too, the US military is looking for information that may not exist. There were no WMD. The Iraqi armed resistance may not be very organized and so there is little to tell, except to rat out whoever was with you at the time you were captured.
And there is scale. The US is processing thousands of people through these systems. It looks to me like they are combing sand with a course rake. They don't know what they are looking for and can't tell when they find it, so they keep combing ever more furiously.
It's possible the US military has locked itself into a meaningless game of trying to get information that isn't there and is just destorying people because it can't do anything else...
I don't know
CG