[lbo-talk] Scalia, Supreme Court Justice of Torture

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Mar 20 08:16:34 PDT 2008


Chris Doss wrote:
> The effectiveness or lack thereof of torture is an
> emprical question. Is there data?
>
One of my guilty pleasures is reading comments from old spooks (or people who pretend to be old spooks) on Larry Johnson's web site. There appears to be a consensus that torture does not produce actionable intelligence. This is an empirical question in principle, but in practice, given the maniacal secrecy of intelligence agencies, it would be practically impossible to do any systematic research on this.

Miles



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