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According to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair:
"High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country,"
He should be the person to know!
I also found a few excerpts from Jeannine Bell from Indiana University-Bloomington, Maurer School of Law's article:
"The extraordinary claims made by those who write interrogation manuals do not necessarily translate into the exceedingly high levels of effectiveness of which they brag. Though there is some evidence to suggest that professionals are better at detecting lies than members of the general public,95 when officers are placed in situations similar to interrogation, their accuracy rate was around sixty-seven percent.96 This is of course significantly higher than the level of chance but far lower than the eighty-five percent interrogation manuals predict. In addition, the problem of false confessions is not limited to those interrogations during which suspects are being tortured. Research has shown that false positive errors are most likely to occur when interrogators isolate the suspect in the interrogation room, when they confront him with evidence of the crime, or when they provide moral justification for having committed the crime."
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"Finally, for those who tout torture’s effectiveness, and most importantly, there is the cost empirically. Recently, particularly in connection with the coercive interrogations at Abu Ghraib, we have seen that the wide scale use of torture and torture “lite” yield false positives. Interrogators will not immediately know that a person who confesses falsely actually does not have sound information. Thus, I argue because of incentives placed on the suspect to confess, confessions procured as a result of torture and other physically coercive means must be investigated to determine their truthfulness. This is a time-consuming, and in the case of large numbers of false positives, ultimately a wasteful use of scarce investigative resources."
"High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country,"
He should be the person to know!
I also found a few excerpts from Jeannine Bell from Indiana University-Bloomington, Maurer School of Law's article:
"The extraordinary claims made by those who write interrogation manuals do not necessarily translate into the exceedingly high levels of effectiveness of which they brag. Though there is some evidence to suggest that professionals are better at detecting lies than members of the general public,95 when officers are placed in situations similar to interrogation, their accuracy rate was around sixty-seven percent.96 This is of course significantly higher than the level of chance but far lower than the eighty-five percent interrogation manuals predict. In addition, the problem of false confessions is not limited to those interrogations during which suspects are being tortured. Research has shown that false positive errors are most likely to occur when interrogators isolate the suspect in the interrogation room, when they confront him with evidence of the crime, or when they provide moral justification for having committed the crime."
more...
"Finally, for those who tout torture’s effectiveness, and most importantly, there is the cost empirically. Recently, particularly in connection with the coercive interrogations at Abu Ghraib, we have seen that the wide scale use of torture and torture “lite” yield false positives. Interrogators will not immediately know that a person who confesses falsely actually does not have sound information. Thus, I argue because of incentives placed on the suspect to confess, confessions procured as a result of torture and other physically coercive means must be investigated to determine their truthfulness. This is a time-consuming, and in the case of large numbers of false positives, ultimately a wasteful use of scarce investigative resources."
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