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[–] middle_path 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago 

Maybe the other two, not the first one. It's really just a way for sadists to get their dick hard.

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[–] CantBuyPersonality 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

1 - Actionable intelligence? All datas point to no. I have personal experience with this, and I did not give them any truthful information. I was trained how to deal with it, but it also aligns to my personality to not let them "win".

Scopolamine will get you the info you want and make it easy to confuse the person. Along with some other substances, you can get the info and the person doesn't remember ever being interviewed.

2 - As a means of punishment, that is how our CIA used it at Guantanamo. Even the CIA itself has now admitted it doesn't work.

3 - As a means of deterrence - no. It is engineered [in the case of terrorism] - to create more terrorists. They will intentionally torture someone to the point where they can appear beaten, but in their own psychological evaluation realize the person will never "flip sides". Nonetheless they then "convert" this person to be an informant or an insider/double agent - all the while knowing the person will go out and create more terrorist networks and tell his story to the enemy so they will hate us even more.

The CIA and the US Army, at Guantanamo, sodomized terrified screaming young children with plunger handles and broom handles, in the hallway outside their own mothers cell. This was "torture" and this is public record because of the photographic releases.

This type of "torture" will never get actionable intelligence, it will only harden enemies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/senate-committee-cia-torture-does-not-work

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[–] watch_listed 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

No, it's a way for people to give in to their basest desires while rationalizing it.

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[–] 12418351? ago  (edited ago)

http://archive.is/kXQlO

Short answer is no