Torture Not Effective
Well, duh. It's also "wrong" but figuring that out is apparently still going to take a while. Excerpt below, full article here.
Tough tactics don't help interrogations: Guantanamo prison info not any better
March 22, 2005, BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Harsh techniques used by military interrogators on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, produced no better information than traditional law-enforcement methods, FBI agents told their superiors in newly declassified portions of e-mails released Monday.
"FBI agents assigned to the detention center raised their concerns over the military's interrogation methods with senior commanders and civilian Pentagon officials, but were rebuffed, according to one of the excerpts.
"In one of the e-mails, an unidentified FBI agent said "conversations got somewhat heated" when he told senior military commanders and Pentagon officials that the information produced by the military's interrogations "was nothing more than what the FBI got using simple investigative techniques.""
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