Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture

Our body of experience shows a friendly approach is most successful in interrogation, Nance says. SERE's historical memory goes back to the French and Indian Wars in understanding torture methods that captured U.S. troops might face and devising strategies to resist them. He relates the story of Hans Joachim Scharff, a master Luftwaffe interrogator who spurned abusive techniques used by the Gestapo (also, interestingly, termed "enhanced interrogation") in ... Full Story »

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Matisse Enzer
3.2
by Matisse Enzer - Oct. 1, 2008

A mixed bag: exciting piece, with an inspiring central figure, but not much evidence or balance - we don't see the supposed attacks on the man's credentials so have no way to judge their accuracy, nor are we told where we can see the "body of experience" referred to. Still, the subject is critically important and the larger context (getting good information, spread of torture as a officially sanctioned technique, etc.0 is presented.

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