Now that I think about it a second, I think you seem to be assuming that the person being tortured is just some guy who may or may not know the information being sought and so will just make up information to get the torture to stop. That is not always the case. If you capture Erwin Rommel, you can be pretty sure that he knows a lot about specific German battle plans and you can probably confirm whatever he divulges with relative accuracy.
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If you want my opinion, I think that intelligence obtained
> through torture of any kind is basically garbage - not just
> useless but counterproductive, as the informants have every
> incentive to "confess" regardless of the truth function of
> that "confession." But that is my value judgment,
> which is beside the point.
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> Wojtek
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