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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Expert: Torture would fail in a real ticking time-bomb' situation

Even though testimony from actual interrogators like Ali Soufan has made it clear that torture does not work and is more likely to be counter-productive, defenders of torture like Sen. Lindsey Graham continue resorting to the well-worn ticking time-bomb' scenario.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow spoke about the use of torture with Malcoln Nance, formerly chief of training at the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistanc and Escape (SERE) program on which the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques were based.

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So maybe that straw man scenario isn't quite the be-all and end-all you thought?

Still believe Torture Werks?

Hmm who should we believe... Malcoln Nance, former chief of training at the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program (on which the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques were based) OR 101Charpuddles, who really has no credentials but spends his life ranting about limp-wristed "libruls" on a lefty blog?

You decide.

I guess the word "ridiculous" pretty much sums up this feeble attempt to justify torture here. However, the word "criminal" works for me just as well.

Yeah JeffJ Yeah OohRah Yeah You Bushites. You're al,l full of shit like usual. Typical of the Bushite Mentality. They support Illegal activity. That seems to be SOP for being a Buishite I am afraid.

larry

In addition to making clear his belief that the SERE-derived techniques are torture, Nance also stated that he would never advise using those techniques in an actual ticking time-bomb situation because "all the prisoner has to do is not answer the question or better yet, the prisoner will lie."

But why would they lie?
Huh? Huh? Huh?
They've been tortured and torture werks!
So ipso facto or dipsomania or ex post facto or kleptomania or abracadabra they'll tell the truth.
And they'll tell the truth because they've been tortured.
Because torture werks!
~Tomas Torquemada Wannabes

Face it! You can't Torquemada anything.

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