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rqebmm on Dec 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogatio...

This has also been stated by many interrogation professionals, so it's not like it's just uninformed civilians running around saying "torture doesn't work, so don't use it"

sigzero on Dec 9, 2014 [–]

I hate torture. One of the problems is that many interrogation professionals also say it works.

pluma on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

To be fair, it's a lot easier to just rationalize what you're doing than to admit you've been doing unspeakable things to humans for no real benefit.

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