How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?

Obviously if one is tortured they will say ANYTHING to get it to stop and even give false information if they do not actually know anything. There are many other ways of getting information, many of which do not even involve prisoners.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?Actually, John McCain wrote in an article some time ago that when he was tortured in Vietnam to give names of officials, he instead gave the names of the starting line-up of his favorite football team just to get the torture to stop.



Torture gives notoriously unreliable information. Besides, if we torture their people when we have them in custody and claim no crime was committed, what's to stop them from torturing our people if they capture them? The answer: absolutely nothing.



People seem to forget that if what we do to foreign detainees is not a crime, then it would not be a crime for another government to do it to our citizens.



Torture does not get reliable information, it turns the world against us, it gives the enemy permission to do the same if they capture our people, and it's a war crime as defined by the Geneva Convention.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?
Ask Kalid Sheik Mohammed



The mastermind of 9/11 who when tortured gave us a massive amount of info that led to the arrests of other terroristsHow is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?Who said anything about reliable.



Maybe it's just fun.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?
Makes more sense to me than the tea parties the CIA will be forced to use going forward.



Bad idea BO.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?Sure: The one being tortured might say anything the first time, but they soon learn that the punishment for lying or remaining silent is more torture sessions. That is why periods of torture are followed by rest periods, so the prisoner learns that only telling the truth stops the pain.



Of course torture works. It has been used for millenia.



Notice your questions is not about whether torture is right, only does it work or not.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?
Yes, but its much better than politely asking them and saying please..

However, if you scare them s***less and torture them, your chances of getting something important increases. Plus we have technology and trained personal who can tell when someone is lying just by their body posture.



There is a difference between torturing civilians and torturing armed personal like terrorists. Its war, I say anything goes.How is torture a reliable way to get information from prisoners?
We have sophisticated interrogation techniques, and none of them involve torture. KSM was waterboarded, not tortured.



Platypus: Do you really think terrorists need our permission to torture our people? Anyone who thinks this enemy will not use torture if we don't (and we don't) doesn't realize what kind of enemy we are facing.
Independent studies have repeatedly shown that torture does not work. It didn't work in the middle ages and it doesn't work now. The Bush administration was too stupid to realize this but luckily, those self serving pieces of rat sh*t are no longer in power........