For all the debate about interrogation, little research exists
The heated debate in recent weeks about harsh interrogation treatments at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere highlights what some scientists have been warning the U.S. for years: that almost no research exists to tell interrogators the best way to get information out of suspected terrorists. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
It is unfortunate that muc hof the reasearch the Nazis was relegated to the trash heap. They kept meticulus records on procedures and results. Yes, it was appalling, yes it was criminal, yes it was a dark day for humanity. That does not that we should have thrown away the reams of records that were destroyed in hopes of wiping the atroscities from our collective memory. Perhaps the far right would have been more receptive of Gehring saying it does little good, than to hear it from military commanders. During Vietnam, there was a story of a S. Vietnamese intel officer who would take two VC up in a helicopter, He would kick the first one out because he wouldn't talk, he'd kick the second one out to shut him up. (I don'y believe it really happened, because I heard so many variations of the same story and it was always at another base)